Re: What is an API?

[Philip Douglass]

API stands for "Application Programming Interface". An API is the rules that must be followed in order that the program you are writing can interface with the program whose API you are writing against. An API usually means that the developer of the application has given you the developer, function calls and/or objects and classes that give you 'hooks' into their program. -- Philip Douglass Internet Networking Group Database Administrator SIRS Publishing, Inc. ----- Original Message ----- From: KENNETH JANUSZ To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 1:08 PM Subject: What is an API? I have read a lot about the term API.  I have searched the web and documentation and cannot find "API" is an abbreviation for? And, I cannot find a definition of what an API is?  If someone could help me on this I would appreciate it.  All the documentation I have assumes that the reader knows what an API is.   Thanks, Ken Janusz, CPIM