For developers who want to expose their Web applications to other computers and Internet services, API platform vendor Apigee is offering a free online tool to help create APIs using the increasingly popular Swagger API specification.

With the Apigee API Studio, now in available in beta, developers can build REST-based APIs (application programming interfaces) in a browser, and have Apigee mock servers test them to ensure they operate as expected.

REST stands for Representational State Transfer, the dominant architecture currently used by Web applications to exchange data. A REST-based API exposes the functionality of an application through a set of Internet accessible commands.

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