Working with APIs and Services
So far, we have used PAD to enable applications without an API to be used with automated processes via their user interface (UI). Even though this is the main purpose of PAD, we can also communicate with APIs in the context of UI flows to wherever is the best integration option. These possibilities close the loop and allow us to implement a complete business process exclusively in PAD without adding other mechanisms. Accordingly, in this chapter, we will look at which APIs and protocols PAD can communicate with directly and which web-based data formats PAD can handle. We will highlight the following points:
- Managing local Active Directory (AD) services and accessing local database and email services
- Leveraging web services with Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and working with web formats (Javascript object notation (JSON), Extensible Markup Language (XML), and portable document format (PDF))
- Cryptography...
