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RAML vs Sandbox: What are the differences?
What is RAML? RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) makes it easy to manage the whole API lifecycle from design to sharing. RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) makes it easy to manage the whole API lifecycle from design to sharing. It's concise - you only write what you need to define - and reusable. It is machine readable API design that is actually human friendly.
What is Sandbox? Quick and easy mock RESTful API and SOAP webservices. Quickly mock RESTful API or SOAP web-services with simple or dynamic responses, and fault injection to simulate real application behaviour.
RAML and Sandbox belong to "API Tools" category of the tech stack.
Sandbox is an open source tool with 161 GitHub stars and 28 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Sandbox's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of RAML
- API Specification15
- Human Readable7
- API Documentation6
- Design Patterns & Code Reuse3
- API Modeling2
- Automatic Generation of Mule flow2
- Unit Testing2
- API Mocking1
- SDK Generation1