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Patterns for API Design: Simplifying Integration with Loosely Coupled Message Exchanges
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Patterns for API Design: Simplifying Integration with Loosely Coupled Message Exchanges

by Olaf Zimmermann, Mirko Stocker, Daniel Lubke, Uwe Zdun, Cesare Pautasso
November 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
544 pages
15h 47m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 1

Application Programming Interface (API) Fundamentals

This chapter first establishes the context of remote APIs. Next, it motivates why APIs are so important today. It also calls out the main design challenges for APIs, including coupling and granularity concerns. Finally, it introduces an API domain model to establish the terminology and concepts used throughout the book.

From Local Interfaces to Remote APIs

Hardly any fully disconnected application exists today; even standalone applications typically offer some kind of external interface. A simple example is file export and import, often text based; even copy-paste capabilities leveraging the operating system clipboard can be seen as interfaces. Looking inside applications, every ...

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ISBN: 9780137670093