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 two three different APIs. * [[JSON_API|JSON]] based API. This is current and fully supported API. SmartSimple plans to enhance this API for foreseeable future.
* [[Web_Services_Overview|Web Services]] API to support server to server communication via the Internet – Apache Axis2 based.
* Browser based communication to the Server - Ajax based named [[Pandora]].
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