Re: Interfaces

Mark Nottingham wrote:
> 
> I'm seeing some confusion when people say "interface" in relation to the 
> Web; a RESTifarian will say that the interface is uniform -- e.g., GET, 
> PUT, DELETE, POST -- but there's also a colloquial use of "interface" to 
> indicate the set of resources that a Web application exposes; e.g., "the 
> Flickr REST interface."
> 
> Anybody have a better term for the latter (that isn't too unnatural)?

I see API used commonly in the latter example.

Or perhaps more generally: "service(s)"

Cheers,

L.

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Received on Tuesday, 28 March 2006 10:57:32 UTC