[ACCEPTED]-Differences between REST and JSON APIs-rest

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Very first thing to mention, JSON is not 7 an API but a data format webservices and 6 programs use to communicate to each other.

Webservices 5 can be of many forms but most popular are 4 REST and SOAP. Webservices give you a way 3 to interact with remote machines and communicate 2 with them.

To read more about Json, visit 1 http://www.json.org/ , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Json

And to read more about Webservices, visit, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webservices

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