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API DocumentationBasics
Presented by Mugdha Vairagade
 
Overview
API
:
A
pplication
P
rogramming
I
nterfaceAn organized group of classes that perform relatedoperations. The APIs are the platforms on which
Object Oriented 
applications are built.APIs highlight the reusability of OO code.Organizations often develop APIs for specificpurposes, and provide them (often as part of 
SDK 
) to other developers to build applicationsupon.Example: JavaMail API, Google Maps API, iPhoneAPI, and so on.
 
API Documentation
API documentation is documentation of theclasses in that API.Classes: Physical building-blocks of an OOapplication. A class defines the abstractcharacteristics of an object: attributes(
fields
/
 properties
) andbehavior(
functions
/
methods
) of the object.These classes are grouped into packages bytheir functionality. Example: com.java.langThe packages are grouped together as APIs.
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