About API and Web Services
Explore the fundamentals of APIs and web services, understanding how they enable communication between applications over networks. This lesson covers key concepts including the differences between SOAP and REST web services, and prepares you to grasp their use in API automation.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
What is an API?
API stands for Application Programming Interface.
It is a software interface that allows two distinct services/applications to interact without one having to know the implementation details of the other. It is what we call, protocol agnostic.
What is a web service?
A web service is a medium that lets two machines communicate with each other over a network.
In other words, it allows communication between the client and the server ...