XML, API, CSV, SOAP! Understanding the Alphabet Soup of Data Exchange

Peter offers an explanation of how data can be stored, types of data formats and methods to transfer data, and how APIs are used.

Let's say you have two different software packages, and you would like them to be able to share data. What would be involved? Can you link them so they exchange data automatically? And what do all those acronyms mean? Peter Campbell explains.

Read this article by Peter S. Campbell published by Idealware in October 2007.