A typical API application will run as a Client/Server application.
- Client: Your API consuming application.
- Server: A licensed, API-Enabled, Colligo Contributor Application.
When your API-consuming aplication initializes a connection to Contributor, an instance of Contributor will be start running (if it is not already running). This ‘Contributor Engine’ must be installed .
Writing and running API-applications necessitates two valid keys are available:
| Application Key | An API-application must connect to an API –enabled Contributor application. Most of the different flavors of Contributor may be configured to support API connections. Your Colligo Sales contact can confirm whether a particular Contributor license key allows API-connections. |
| Developer Key | A key must be supplied to API-enabled Contributor application when the external application initializes a connection to Contributor. |