RE: What is an API?

[Jamadagni, Rajendra]

Application Programming Interface ...
 
http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact&Acronym=API
 
Raj
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  -Original Message-From: KENNETH JANUSZ 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 1:08 
  PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: What 
  is an API?
  
  I have read a lot about the term API.  I have searched 
  the web and documentation and cannot find "API" is an abbreviation 
  for? And, I cannot find a definition of what an API is?  If 
  someone could help me on this I would appreciate it.  All the 
  documentation I have assumes that the reader knows what an API 
is.
   
  Thanks,
  Ken Janusz, CPIM

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RE: What is an API?

[Magaliff, Bill]

wow - 
what a great web site!  thanks!

  -Original Message-From: Jamadagni, Rajendra 
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  2002 2:03 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list 
  ORACLE-LSubject: RE: What is an API?
  Application Programming Interface ...
   
  http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact&Acronym=API
   
  Raj
  __
  Rajendra 
  Jamadagni  
      MIS, ESPN Inc.
  Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN 
  dot com
  Any opinion expressed here is 
  personal and doesn't reflect that of ESPN Inc. 
  QOTD: Any clod can have facts, 
  but having an opinion is an 
  art!
  
-Original Message-From: KENNETH JANUSZ 
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 1:08 
PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: 
What is an API?

I have read a lot about the term API.  I have 
searched the web and documentation and cannot find "API" is an abbreviation 
for? And, I cannot find a definition of what an API is?  If 
someone could help me on this I would appreciate it.  All the 
documentation I have assumes that the reader knows what an API 
is.
 
Thanks,
Ken Janusz, 
CPIM

Re: What is an API?

[Philip Douglass]

API stands for "Application Programming Interface". 
An API is the rules that must be followed in order that the program you are 
writing can interface with the program whose API you are writing against. An API 
usually means that the developer of the application has given you the developer, 
function calls and/or objects and classes that give you 'hooks' into their 
program.
--Philip DouglassInternet Networking GroupDatabase 
AdministratorSIRS Publishing, Inc.

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  From: 
  KENNETH JANUSZ 
  
  To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L 
  
  Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 1:08 
  PM
  Subject: What is an API?
  
  
  I have read a lot about the term API.  I have searched 
  the web and documentation and cannot find "API" is an abbreviation 
  for? And, I cannot find a definition of what an API is?  If 
  someone could help me on this I would appreciate it.  All the 
  documentation I have assumes that the reader knows what an API 
is.
   
  Thanks,
  Ken Janusz, CPIM

RE: What is an API?

[Jeff Herrick]

Beyond what the acronym stands for I would add that it's an
interface to the 'guts' of COTS (Commercial Off-The Shelf)
packages. Two examples I have worked with personnally are

1) WinFax API - ships as a set of DLL's that allow you to
   interface directly to the WinFax OLE object so that you
   can send faxes programmatically...in my case it was
   faxing purchase orders from Maximo

2) PVCS API - allows you to directly interface to information
   contained in PVCS archive files

Other examples include one that ships with Financials, the
Windows API's and others too numerous to mention. They usually
ship as header files (.h) library files (.lib) as well as
runtime (.DLL) files. The entry points are documented and you
'roll your own' from there.


HTH

Jeff Herrick

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Jamadagni, Rajendra wrote:

> Application Programming Interface ...
>
> http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact
> 
> &Acronym=API
>
>
> I have read a lot about the term API.  I have searched the web and
> documentation and cannot find "API" is an abbreviation for? And, I cannot
> find a definition of what an API is?  If someone could help me on this I
> would appreciate it.  All the documentation I have assumes that the reader
> knows what an API is.
>
> Thanks,
> Ken Janusz, CPIM
>
>

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Re: What is an API?

[ltiu]

What's CPIM?

ltiu

Jamadagni, Rajendra wrote:

> Application Programming Interface ...
>  
> http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact&Acronym=API 
> 
>  
> Raj
> __
>
> Rajendra Jamadagni  MIS, ESPN Inc.
>
> Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com
>
> Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflect that of 
> ESPN Inc.
>
> QOTD: Any clod can have facts, but having an opinion is an art!
>
> -Original Message-
> *From:* KENNETH JANUSZ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 28, 2002 1:08 PM
> *To:* Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> *Subject:* What is an API?
>
> I have read a lot about the term API.  I have searched the web and
> documentation and cannot find "API" is an abbreviation for? And, I
> cannot find a definition of what an API is?  If someone could help
> me on this I would appreciate it.  All the documentation I have
> assumes that the reader knows what an API is.
>  
> Thanks,
> Ken Janusz, CPIM
>
>
>
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RE: What is an API?

[Farnsworth, Dave]

API - 
Application Programming Interface
 
An API 
is a series of functions that programs can use to make the operating system do 
their dirty work.  These are nice for functions that many programs may have 
to use so the programmers do not have to reinvent the code.
 
Dave

  -Original Message-From: KENNETH JANUSZ 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 12:08 
  PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: What 
  is an API?
  
  I have read a lot about the term API.  I have searched 
  the web and documentation and cannot find "API" is an abbreviation 
  for? And, I cannot find a definition of what an API is?  If 
  someone could help me on this I would appreciate it.  All the 
  documentation I have assumes that the reader knows what an API 
is.
   
  Thanks,
  Ken Janusz, CPIM

Re: What is an API?

[KENNETH JANUSZ]

Thanks much to all of you who let me know what API stands for and how it is
used.  Also, thanks to those who sent me the URL for acronyms.

CPIM stands for Certified in Production and Inventory Management by the
American Production and Inventory Control Society.  This certification has
been around since the early 1970's.

Ken Janusz


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>
> Beyond what the acronym stands for I would add that it's an
> interface to the 'guts' of COTS (Commercial Off-The Shelf)
> packages. Two examples I have worked with personnally are
>
> 1) WinFax API - ships as a set of DLL's that allow you to
>interface directly to the WinFax OLE object so that you
>can send faxes programmatically...in my case it was
>faxing purchase orders from Maximo
>
> 2) PVCS API - allows you to directly interface to information
>contained in PVCS archive files
>
> Other examples include one that ships with Financials, the
> Windows API's and others too numerous to mention. They usually
> ship as header files (.h) library files (.lib) as well as
> runtime (.DLL) files. The entry points are documented and you
> 'roll your own' from there.
>
>
> HTH
>
> Jeff Herrick
>
> On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Jamadagni, Rajendra wrote:
>
> > Application Programming Interface ...
> >
> > http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact
> > 
> > &Acronym=API
> >
> >
> > I have read a lot about the term API.  I have searched the web and
> > documentation and cannot find "API" is an abbreviation for? And, I
cannot
> > find a definition of what an API is?  If someone could help me on this I
> > would appreciate it.  All the documentation I have assumes that the
reader
> > knows what an API is.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ken Janusz, CPIM
> >
> >
>
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RE: What is an API?

[Hately Mike]

Application Programming Interface
 
Regards,
Mike

  -Original Message-From: KENNETH JANUSZ 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 28 August 2002 18:08To: 
  Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: What is an 
  API?
  
  I have read a lot about the term API.  I have searched 
  the web and documentation and cannot find "API" is an abbreviation 
  for? And, I cannot find a definition of what an API is?  If 
  someone could help me on this I would appreciate it.  All the 
  documentation I have assumes that the reader knows what an API 
is.
   
  Thanks,
  Ken Janusz, CPIM



  


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