In the API development world, we frequently hear many abbreviations which are important to know in terms of its full form and the definition of the same. Here I will try to put those abbreviations and small description about it. To work on API, one should have good understanding of the abbreviations which I am putting it here.
| Keyword | Full Name | Description |
| API | Application Programming Interface | It is an intermediary software that allows applications to talk to each other . There are many types of APIs like Java APIs, Web APIs (SOAP and REST), RPC |
| REST | Representational State Transfer | It is a software architectural style that suggest set of constraint to be used to create webservices. If any webservice applies these constraint then it is called RESTFul Services |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol | It is a messaging protocol which is being used to exchange the structure information while working on Web Services. These are mainly Stateful Services. Uses XML to exchange the message |
| DDD | Domain Driven Design | It is an approach to software development and widely used in the micro services based architecture. It basically suggests to think application in perspective of domain and define definite boundaries of the domain before doing development |
| SDD | Specification Driven Design | It is also a software development process that uses API specification as a guide for implementation. If anything changes in the implementation then Specification needs to be updated first then development |
| CRUD | Create Read Update Delete | It is nothing but terminology which is being used for Creating, Updating , deleting or Reading any resource. this word commonly used in API Development, DB operations |
| CORS |
Cross-origin Resource Sharing |
It is a mechanism that allows restricted resources on the web page to be requested from another domain. Assume if one website is requesting data from another website and both are deployed in different Domain or network which are not trusted. then CORS needs to be enabled. |
| ESB | Enterprise Service Bus | It is an integration pattern where centralized software components perform integration to back-end system and make those integration and transformation available as Services for other systems to use. IBM, Mule , TIBCO etc provides standard ESB |
| JSON |
Javascript Object Notation | It is nothing but a lightweight data exchange format. which is a key - value pair and heavily used in the RESTFul APIs and other web based application development |
| JWT | Javascript web token | It is standard for safely passing in space constraint environment. Simplicity, Compactness and usability is the light of the architecture. Click here for more details |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language | It is a standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in the browser. For detail reading click here |
| HTTP | Hypertext transfer protocol |
It is application layer protocol for distributed, collaborative and hypermedia information systems. |
| HATEOAS |
Hypermedia as the Engine of Application of State |
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| RAML |
RESTFul API Modeling Language |
RESTful API Modeling Language is a YAML-based language for describing RESTful APIs. It provides all the information necessary to describe RESTful or practically RESTful APIs. More detail click here |
| URL | Uniform Resource Location |
It is basically a web address and reference to the web resource. Ex. |
| URI | Unified Resource Identifier |
It is compact sequence of characters that identifies and abstract or physical resource. Read this website for more detail |
| WSDL | Web service Definition Language |
It is used to describe the SOAP based web services. It provides the location of the service . It defines data types used in the services, data elements for each operation, operation that can be performed and protocol and data format for each type. |
| XML |
Extensible Markup Language |
It is also a markup language that define set of rules for encoding documents in format which is human and machine readable. Heavily used in Web services for format exchange and other documentation like ORM. More details |
| YAML |
Yet Another Markup Language | AML is a human-readable data-serialization language. It is commonly used for configuration files and in applications where data is being stored or transmitted. More details |
| SOA | Service Oriented Architecture | It is again an architectural style where Services are provided to other components by application over the network using different-2 Communication channel. Every service logically represent the business activity, Self-Contained in the nature, Black box for the consumer and many consist many other services internally. Read service based architecture in detail here |
| gRPC | gRPC, Remote procedure Call | It is an open source RPC System for high performance framework that runs in any environment. You can look for more details here |
| OAuth2 | OAuth2.0 | It is a standard protocol for Authorization for the API and Micro-services access. more details click here |
| GraphQL | It is a query language for your API and runtime for fulfilling those queries with existing data. More details click here | |
That's it for this article.