The Department of the Air Force is taking the necessary steps to standardize application programming interfaces (APIs) across the service. Calibrating this software intermediary that specifies how ...

Google’s Container Engine, the system through which developers can easily create and manage clusters of software containers, is now generally available. Software containers are isolated environments ...

Direct3D. OpenAL. Winsock. You've probably heard of these, you might have even used them before, but one thing is certain: everyone who's ever used a computer will have run a piece of software that's ...

Remote Method Invocation (RMI) is an application programming interface (API) in the Java programming language and development environment. It allows objects on one computer or Java Virtual Machine ...

An Application Programming Interface (API) is the bridge that allows different software applications to communicate effectively. Born in 1968 with an emphasis on hardware independence, APIs have ...

Microsoft is adding to the set of application programming interfaces (APIs) underlying its evolving Live developer platform, company officials said at Microsoft's Mix '07 conference in Las Vegas.

A set of instructions by which an application program (a complete program that performs a specific function directly for the user) can access the computer's operating system. This term was viewed ...