Chapter 7. The Description and Discovery of RESTful Web Services
In earlier days, many software solution providers did not really pay enough attention to documenting their RESTful web APIs. However, soon they realized the need for a good API documentation solution in order to accelerate the adoption of their REST API services by customers. As a result, many REST API metadata standards have emerged in the recent past.
Today, you will find a variety of approaches to document RESTful web APIs. This chapter describes some of the popular solutions available today for describing, producing, consuming, and visualizing RESTful web services. This learning will definitely help you to quickly learn and use the other API documentation solutions available in ...
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