Swagger 2.0 Connects APIs and Cloud Services
September 12, 2014
Grazed from Dr.Dobbs. Author: Adrian Bridgwater.
Reverb Technologies has announced its Swagger 2.0 API interface and coordinated one of the "largest ever" open standards workgroups in the API space, combining contributions from nearly 500 companies. "Swagger effectively solves the age-old challenge of machine-to-machine communication, which has become increasingly complicated with cloud computing," claims the company.
With Swagger, developers can connect mobile devices to literally thousands of Swagger-enabled web services. The Swagger specification, first released in late 2010 by Wordnik (a property of Reverb) has been the most successful API interface effort to date. Historically, WSDL, WADL, and WADL 2.0 aimed to perform similar tasks but (says Reverb) were "plagued with complexity" — and had limited adoption across different programming languages and frameworks…
According to the development team, by introducing a simple yet "opinionated" structure, Swagger has broken through programming language barriers to gain adoption where previous efforts fell short…
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