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RAML vs Rest.li: What are the differences?
What is RAML? RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) makes it easy to manage the whole API lifecycle from design to sharing. RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) makes it easy to manage the whole API lifecycle from design to sharing. It's concise - you only write what you need to define - and reusable. It is machine readable API design that is actually human friendly.
What is Rest.li? A REST+JSON framework for robust, scalable service architectures, by LinkedIn. Rest.li is an open source REST framework for building robust, scalable RESTful architectures using type-safe bindings and asynchronous, non-blocking IO. Rest.li fills a niche for applying RESTful principals at scale with an end-to-end developer workflow for buildings REST APIs that promotes clean REST practices, uniform interface design and consistent data modeling.
RAML and Rest.li belong to "API Tools" category of the tech stack.
Rest.li is an open source tool with 1.94K GitHub stars and 392 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Rest.li's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of RAML
- API Specification15
- Human Readable7
- API Documentation6
- Design Patterns & Code Reuse3
- API Modeling2
- Automatic Generation of Mule flow2
- Unit Testing2
- API Mocking1
- SDK Generation1