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What is OpenAPI?
The OpenAPI Specifications provides a formal standard for describing HTTP APIs.
This allows people to understand how an API works, how a sequence of APIs work together, generate client code, create tests, apply design standards, and much, much more.
![OpenAPI Simple API Lifecycle](https://www.openapis.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/05/What-is-OpenAPI-Simple-API-Lifecycle-Vertical.png)
3 Benefits of OpenAPI
As the most widely used API description language:
Commonality of use and support bytool vendors,meaning flexibility in toolvendor selection.
Commonality of knowledge bydevelopersandengineers,meaning flexibility instaffing.
Abstraction of API description facilitating adoption ofinnovations in API behaviors whileavoiding total rewrites.
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