what is fullform for API

shabbir zakir

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Posts: 183

posted 18 years ago

hi!
I wonder What is the fullform for API.please explain
thanks in advance

V Srinivasan

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Posts: 99

posted 18 years ago

Application Programming Interface

Sujit Kurtadikar

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Posts: 68

posted 18 years ago

API means Application Programming Interface.
Java API includes all the stadard packages, classes with various methods defined in it. When program is written in java, it uses java API do perform differnt tasks.

Balu Ramachandran

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Posts: 16

posted 18 years ago

hi,
API--->Application Programming Interface
API is comman for all (device drivers,windows,java...)
In JAVA, Sun launched nearly hundrads of API for Specific needs.
This API contains classes,interfaces,and Methods & Field Summery.
Eg:
jdk1.3 API
jsdk2.0 API(servlet API)
J2ee API
JDBC 3.0 API
.................
.................
u can download these from www.java.sun.com web site.

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