Programming Foundations: APIs and Web Services

Learn all about web services—the standard method of communicating between applications and across the web—and see how to build them using several popular technologies.

Introduction

• Communicate on the web using services
• What you should know

1. Understanding Web Services

• Web services overview
• Advantages of web services
• Considerations of web services
• Secure web services
• Web services, APIs, and microservices

2. Using RESTful APIs and HATEOAS

• REST overview
• Benefits of REST
• HATEOAS overview
• Consume a RESTful API
• Consume a RESTful API via Postman
• Create a RESTful API
• Document an API

3. Using SOAP-Based Web Services

• SOAP overview
• History and future of SOAP
• Consume a SOAP web service
• Consume a SOAP web service via SoapUI
• Create a web service

4. Developing APIs Using GraphQL

• GraphQL overview
• The structure of GraphQL queries
• Consume a GraphQL API
• Create an API with GraphQL

Conclusion

• Next steps