Determining What Makes a Good API
Apress eBooks · 2008
Among people writing libraries in Java, there is a common misconception that APIs are comprised of nothing more than classes and methods, and the Javadoc used to annotate them. Indeed, the Javadoc serves as an important index of API visibility, but “API” is a far broader term than this view would indicate and includes many other types of interfaces. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.