API VS Web Service
API
1. An API is an Interface between two or more applications by which they can access each other
2. API is not necessarily web based
3. API can use any means of communications to interact between applications
4. API don't always need a Network for communication
2. API is not necessarily web based
3. API can use any means of communications to interact between applications
4. API don't always need a Network for communication
Web Service
1. Web Services facilitates interactions of two or more applications over a network
2. Web Services uses SOAP, REST, XML-RPC as a medium of communication
3. Web Services must requires Network for communication
4. All Web Services are API's but all API's are not Web Services
2. Web Services uses SOAP, REST, XML-RPC as a medium of communication
3. Web Services must requires Network for communication
4. All Web Services are API's but all API's are not Web Services
All Web Services are API's but all API's are not Web Services
API can use any means of Communication
Web Services only use 3 means SOAP, REST, XML-RPC for communication
Web Services only use 3 means SOAP, REST, XML-RPC for communication
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