Developer forums contain opinions and information related to the usage of APIs. API names in forum posts are often not explicitly linked to their official resources. Automatic linking of an API mention to its official resources can be challenging for various reasons, such as, name overloading. We present a technique, ANACE, to automatically resolve API mentions in the textual contents of forum ...

We contend that a new networking API could better serve the needs of dataand service-oriented applications, and could more easily map to heterogeneous environments, than the pervasive Sockets API does. In this paper, we present an initial design of a networking API based on the publish/subscribe paradigm, along with an exploration of its security implications, examples to demonstrate several co...

The design of software should be made up of small packages and classes. The Java Standard API is now very large since Java’s beginnings, and contains over 200 packages, nearly 5800 classes, and nearly 50,000 methods. We have conducted visual software analysis on the Java Standard API using existing software visualization techniques to identify large packages and classes in the API. Our analysis...

In this paper we describe a persistent object store designed and implemented to test and evaluate the merits and shortcomings of the Java Reflection API. Our goal is to design a persistent object store that supports transparent object persistence. Our premise was that we should be able to achieve this goal if the reflection API is designed with enough features and flexibility. It turns out that...

LDApp is designed as a very modular JavaScript Linked Data stack. A requirement for the modular design was an API to handle the graph data. RDF-Interfaces was the only JavaScript API standard, but lacks store handling and easy management of multiple parsers and serializers. The existing RDF-Interfaces API was extended to cover these use cases. To complete the framework, a JSON-LD integration is...

Real-time collaboration is being offered by multiple libraries and APIs (Google Drive Real-time API, Microsoft Real-Time Communications API, TogetherJS, ShareJS), rapidly becoming a mainstream option for webservices developers. However, they are offered as centralised services running in a single server, regardless if they are free/ open source or proprietary software. After re-engineering Apac...

This paper presents the OWL API a high level Application Programming Interface (API) for working with OWL 2 ontologies. The API is closely aligned with the OWL 2 structural specification. It supports parsing and rendering in the syntaxes defined in the W3C specification, namely, the Functional Syntax, RDF/XML, OWL/XML and the Manchester OWL Syntax. Finally, the reference implementation of the A...

The W3C’s Geolocation API may rapidly standardize the transmission of location information on the Web, but, in dealing with such sensitive information, it also raises serious privacy concerns. We analyze the manner and extent to which the current W3C Geolocation API provides mechanisms to support privacy. We propose a privacy framework for the consideration of location information and use it to...