Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
I heard someplace recently that APIs are the newest form of vendor
lock-in. What's your take?
When they are custom vendor-specific APIs and not standards-based APIs,
they can definitely function that way. I'm still not sure if even a
vendor-specific API is more or
Andrew Hankinson schrieb:
I think that it's supposed to be the exact opposite. APIs, and
especially web APIs, exist to provide access to your data outside of a
specific vendor implementation.
If they are open, well documented, free of non disclosure agreements,
free to be used/implemented
This seems a _far_ more appropriate list for these questions.
-Ross.
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From: Breeding, Marshall marshall.breed...@vanderbilt.edu
Date: Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:53 PM
Subject: [NGC4LIB] Integrating with your ILS through Web services and APIs
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