APIs

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Application Programming Interface

An application programming interface (API) is a specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other.

SmartSimple supports four different APIs.

  • JSON based API (Named SmartConnect). This is current and fully supported API. SmartSimple plans to enhance this API for the foreseeable future .
  • Web Services API to support server to server communication via the Internet – Apache Axis2 based.
  • OData Open Data Protocol (OData) is an open protocol which allows the creation and consumption of SmartSimple data in a standard way. .
  • Browser based communication to the Server - Ajax based, named Pandora.

API Resources

Deprecated API's

  • Desktop API [Deprecated June 5, 2013] - Desktop communication using Microsoft technologies (SmartComClient.dll)

See Also