What is an API?
API stands for Application Programming Interface. We offer an API to allow you to integrate your website with the FastVision Network allowing automated requests to our systems. It operates via XML over secure HTTP. You would use our API to integrate your order processes and control mechanisms with the FastVision Network so that you would not have to use the control panel to process orders or make changes.
An API, or Application Programming Interface, is a set of functions that one computer program makes available to other programs so they can talk to it directly. There are many types of APIs: operating system APIs, application APIs, toolkit APIs and now web site APIs. The classic example is a computer operating system like Microsoft Windows with hundreds of APIs providing services from accessing your hard drive to drawing on the screen. These opeating system APIs then are used by desktop applications like spreadsheets and word processors. Today, APIs can be specified by web sites. Thus amazon.com provides a set of ‘retail APIs’ that allow developers to create computer programs that make use of Amazon’s sophisticated online retail infrastructure. Third party software developers have used this to create specialized storefronts. APIs from eBay facilitate program-to-program auction management, Google’s APIs provide search and mapping services, and so on.
An API or Application Programming Interface, allows programmers to access the functionality of a pre-built software module through well-defined data structures and subroutine calls. Traditionally the most popular networking APIs have accompanied socket libraries. Berkeley sockets and Windows Sockets (Winsock) APIs have seen widespread use for many years. More recently, Java network APIs such as servlets have also grown in popularity. Gordano provides many API s to allow you to modify the product behaviour. These include • The Mail Meta Language, MML (a powerful scripting language) which allows the customisation of functions throughout the Gordano product range. • SMTP clause DLL. • An authentication DLL.. • Message DLL.
An application programming interface or API is a set of data structures, protocols, routines and tools for accessing a web-based software application. It provides all the building blocks for developing programs with ease. An application programming interface may be language dependent or language independent. A language dependent API is available only in a particular programming language. Language independent APIs are not bound to a particular language, system or process. They can be called from several programming languages. APIs run silently in the background. They are completely invisible to software users and web surfers. They’re primary role is to provide a channel for applications to work with each other to make sure the user gets the required functionality and information. For example, when a user buys a product online and enters his or her credit card information, the product website uses an API to send the credit card information to another application. The application verifies
