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Pro RESTful APIs: Design, Build and Integrate with REST, JSON, XML and JAX-RS
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Pro RESTful APIs: Design, Build and Integrate with REST, JSON, XML and JAX-RS

by Sanjay Patni
March 2017
Intermediate to advanced
126 pages
2h 53m
English
Apress
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© Sanjay Patni 2017

Sanjay Patni, Pro RESTful APIs, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2665-0_6

6. API Platform and Data Handler

Sanjay Patni1 

(1)UCSC Excention, Santa Clara, California, USA

This chapter starts with API Platform Architecture and then gets into data handler pattern for integration of RESTful APIs with actual data sources within enterprise to make it more meaningful to the consumers through APIs.

API Platform Architecture

API Platforms are used by API Providers to realize APIs efficiently. We will review the following:

  • Why do we need API Platform?

  • What is an API Platform?

  • Which capabilities does an API Platform have?

  • How is API Platform organized? What is the architecture of API Platform?

  • How does API architecture fit in the surrounding technical architecture ...

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