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Presently the Rest architecture has become a standard for building API’s and Webservices. But what about beyond Rest? What more there is aimed at building API’s?
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Pedro, an API does not necessarily need to be Web or follow some standard that is widely accepted by the community, such as SOAP or REST.
For example, if you are a programmer. NET, you can create a service that receives or sends text files with fixed possibility through a TCP port, you will have a communication interface between the service and whatever application consumes it.
However, if we were talking about Webservices, a REST API will be the friendliest way to make your service available.
If your service is consumed by applications from many different sources, the SOAP standard will offer you more tools to validate the format of the request, forms of authentication, security used in the transport layer, call order of the methods the service, use a transaction (Database) of the customer within its service, and other possibilities.
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