API is the acronym for Application Programming Interface. It is a software interface that allows two applications to interact with each other without any user intervention.
APIs provides product or service to communicate with other products and services without having to know how theyâre implemented.
Web services should be implemented in various ways. The two types of widely used web services are SOAP and RESTful web services.
SOAP â SOAP is a protocol which was designed before REST came into the picture. The main idea behind creating SOAP was to ensure that programs built on different platforms and programming languages could securely exchange data.