id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8197 API - Wikipedia .html text/html 4680 635 63 J. Date[7] in a 1974 paper called The Relational and Network Approaches: Comparison of the Application Programming Interface.[8] An API became a part of ANSI/SPARC framework for database management systems. Linux and Berkeley Software Distribution are examples of operating systems that implement the POSIX APIs.[20] 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).[28] 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 and allowed the copyrighting of simple software commands: ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8197.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8197.txt