Historically, APIs weren't copyrighted. While valuable, there's nothing creative about an API. It just spells out how external programs can work with the program or service.

An extension to Java that provides a programming interface (API) for implementing server-side programs written in Java (Java servlets). See servlet. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.

Java APIs for cloud computing, microservices, and REST Programming with APIs comes to the fore with the modern web API: a network-exposed API (NEA), where the boundary between systems is “over ...

In this article we’ll continue developing our Java API definitions and application code with OpenAPI and Swagger, and we’ll throw Swing Web MVC and Angular 2 into the mix.