A system of tools and resources in an operating system, enabling developers to create software applications.
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- Other systems take advantage of application programming interfaces, which enable software to interact via a standard set of operations and commands.
- The OS by definition must include an application programming interface, and hardware interfaces in the form of device drivers.
- Access to the physical stores can take place through the logical store with a single call to an appropriate application programming interface.
- If we think of a Web URL as a really simple interface for requesting information - a simple application programming interface - then a Web feed is one of the simplest responses we can receive.
- The service layer may have an application programming interface that permits many applications to have access to the database.