Re: What's the differnece between API and Framework?
Re: What's the differnece between API and Framework?
- Subject: Re: What's the differnece between API and Framework?
- From: Jonathan Hess <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 17:50:59 -0700
An API is a set of functions, classes, methods, and other bits that
give you a method to interface with a piece of software. A framework
is one concrete way to package a body of software with a set of header
files that describe its API. A web service is another way to give
clients an API to a set of software functionality that exists on a far
away server.
So, you might think of a framework as one of many methods of
delivering a package of software with an API.
Jon Hess
On May 21, 2009, at 5:33 PM, Chunk 1978 wrote:
my learning is still shady on what is actually an API... sounds like a
framework to me... ?
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