Google Apps Security and Compliance Services Web Services Application Programming Interface Guide, Early Access Version 1.5 - Manual (Page 10)

Chapter 2
Introduction to Google Web Services API 7
Introduction to Google Web Services API
Chapter 2
Welcome to the Google Web Services API
The Google Web Services API leverages your account’s organizational hierarchy
information with standard web service protocols. This collaboration lets you
securely automate everyday administration tasks for hundreds of users. In
addition, this service-oriented architecture provides flexible and functional
extensions letting you integrate the Google Web Services API into additional
business applications.
This guide explains how to build web service clients using the Google Web
Services API. It’s intended for developers experienced with:
• Administering email services for an organization
• The email security service batch interface and command line scripting
• Web service client development which is a requirement
If your development project is just starting to investigate web service solutions,
see “Additional Web Service Resources” on page 12 for tutorials, forums, news
groups, and other technical resources.
Google Web Services API Components
The Google Web Services API is composed of specialized web services, each
optimized for a specific task. Your application can include one or all of these web
service APIs.
The Google Web Services APIs are: