id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3552 API - Wikipedia .html text/html 4944 686 64 Reference to Web APIs is currently the most common use of the term.[3] There are also APIs for programming languages, software libraries, computer operating systems, and computer hardware. J. Date[9] in a 1974 paper called The Relational and Network Approaches: Comparison of the Application Programming Interface.[10] An API became a part of ANSI/SPARC framework for database management systems. While "web API" historically has been virtually synonymous with web service, the recent trend (so-called Web 2.0) has been moving away from Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) based web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA) towards more direct representational state transfer (REST) style web resources and resource-oriented architecture (ROA).[30] Part of this trend is related to the Semantic Web movement toward Resource Description Framework (RDF), a concept to promote web-based ontology engineering technologies. Google case that APIs cannot be copyrighted in the U.S and that a victory for Oracle would have widely expanded copyright protection to a "functional set of symbols" and allowed the copyrighting of simple software commands: ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3552.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3552.txt