[prog] APIs for dummies?

[Bowen, Tricia]

You might want to try converting your already existing Perl programs to Perl modules  so that other developers can access them. Perl modules can be thought of as Perl's api. Converting existing Perl code to Perl modules will allow you create a framework/enforce rules for how code is written. See http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/scs/net/talk/perl-modules_files/frame.html for a quick overview, to see if this is a fit for what you're trying to do.
--Tricia

-----Original Message-----
From: Michelle Murrain [mailto:tech at murrain.net]
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 9:09 AM
To: programming at linuxchix.org
Subject: Re: [prog] APIs for dummies?


On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 00:08, Anthony Gorecki wrote:
> For linux, there are two major graphical API's you can choose from.  ...
<snip>

Sorry - I guess I wasn't clear enough. The project is a large web
database project written in perl, with multiple functionalities.
(Display of data in various forms, content management, database search,
data editing, database control panel, etc.). I've also written some
custom applications that use the project (it's called Xina) as a basis,
but do custom things like client management, time management, etc.

What I want to do is create standard APIs that I (and other programmers)
can plug into to access the functionalities of the basic project. 

Right now, I'm in the process of largely modularizing the application,
which helps, but that's not exactly what I need, I don't think. I want
to make it easy for a programmer just to, for example, access the
database display, or search, etc, by using a pre-defined API. 

But I don't exactly know what APIs are, and how to define or program
them - thus, I need an API programming for dummies resource.
-- 
.Michelle
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