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API vs Odata Services

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Hello all,

With on premise environment what is the difference between using the API vs publishing a Page from Web Services ?

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    APIs also use same OData stack but it have few benefits over that are:

    1. APIs are Webhook supported

    2. Namespaces supported so we can group and islolate our APIs as their functional area and scope

    3. Most important is that they have versioning (As you need stable contract when doing integration. Microsoft also prevents extending standard API pages.)

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