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Why does LinkedIn has REST and JavaScript API samples? One is a JavaScript api and the other is rest api. What purpose does having 2 api’s serve? Is one better than the other? Have you used any and faced problems?
Which is more efficient in terms of information retrieval time
LinkedIn has created 2 sets of API to provide greater flexibility to developers.
Javascript API provides a rich and easy-to-use library to quickly create dynamic User Interface in web browsers. It use OAuth 2 to easily authorize users.
Whereas REST API is programming language & platform agnostic. It uses XML/JSON format and its simple. But this requires developers to create their own User Interface. It uses OAuth 1.0a to authorize users.