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An application programming interface (API) is the specification for which software is meant to be used by other software.

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Java API vs. Other APIs

I'm curious to what you think of C# / .NET's api, btw, as far as I know it's on-par if not better than Java's. (Unbiased, I'm a Java guy myself) As to your question, I have a few theories. … deteriorated some, mainly due to having to maintain backwards compatibility (example is the old Collection classes like Vector and Hashtable, which have been superseded by List and Map but are still in the API
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