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: Chunk 1978 <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 21:38:45 -0400
ok... so an API is like a lower level framework? wikipedia states
that Carbon and Cocoa are APIs on Mac, but i always thought those were
frameworks.
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Jonathan Hess <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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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