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 three four different APIs.
* [[JSON_API|JSON]] based API (Named '''SmartConnect'''). This is current and fully supported API. SmartSimple plans to enhance this API for the foreseeable future .
* [[Web_Services_Overview|Web Services]] API to support server to server communication via the Internet – Apache Axis2 based.
* [[Odata_Overview|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]]