Difference between API and Web Services

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Hi All Can any one please explain me the exact difference between API and Web Services  in simple manner ? Thanks in advance.....

Upendra Pratap Shahi · Answer

Web services are a specific subset of APIs. APIs can have many forms whether they communicate over the Web over other Internet protocols or even inter-process on the same machine or inside the same machine and process. Read below link http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/internet/difference-between-api-and-web-service/ http://www.dotnet-tricks.com/Tutorial/webapi/JI2X050413-Difference-between-WCF-and-Web-API-and-WCF-REST-and-Web-Service.html http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/2b481f/difference-between-Asp-Net-web-api-and-wcf/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19336347/what-is-the-difference-between-a-web-api-and-a-web-service Web services is a defined architecture and approach to a problem domain as stated by the W3C. Web services provide a standard means of interoperating between different software applications running on a variety of platforms and/or framework Web API is a concept and abstracts the means on how the concept is implemented. if helpful kindly mark the answer as Accepted Answer