APIs

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

• API Interactive Demonstration Page

Deprecated API's

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

See Also

• SmartConnect - RESTful API