The heart of a modern application isn’t code anymore — it’s the APIs that let us connect that application to the rest of the world. In today’s era of distributed, componentized, service-oriented ...

Consuming services is something every application needs to do. In this article, Nick demonstrates how to document a REST service using Swagger in order to make it easy to consume from a Universal ...

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While you were getting your coffee, Java application development changed–again. In a world driven by rapid change and innovation, it’s ironic that APIs are making a comeback. Like the coding ...

Latest Version of Popular Open Source Swagger UI and Editor to Launch by SmartBear at IBM InterConnect – March 19-23, 2017 – Las Vegas SOMERVILLE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SmartBear Software, the ...

The key difference between the terms REST versus RESTful is that REST refers to a philosophy about the architecture and design of web services, while the term RESTful refers to any API that properly ...

APIs seem to be everywhere these days. Every popular online service has one. APIs allow developers to interact with online services without actually having to point and click their way through a UI.

There is no sanctioning body or open source linter that can verify if a RESTful API conforms and complies with all applicable REST API naming conventions and best practices. However, REST API ...