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The Mediawiki-Japi is just another Mediawiki API for Java.

Mediawiki's have a built in API see the Mediawiki API of this site.

To access such an API via Java a Mediawiki API Java Client library is needed.

See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code#Java for a list of such clients. Mediawiki-Japi is another one.

Mediawiki-Japi is built around the XML/Json messages that are used to communicate. This interface changes frequently so the structure of

the Java-code needs to stay up-to-date. This is achieved by

- generating the Java code from the XML message structure see jaxbgenerator
- testing the Java code against ExampleWikis

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-This is the wiki for the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki Mediawiki]-Japi. Its just another [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page Mediawiki API] for Java.
 == What is it ==
-Mediawiki's have a built in API see the [http://mediawiki-japi.bitplan.com/mediawiki-japi/api.php Mediawiki API of this site] as an example for a Mediawiki API.
+The [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki Mediawiki]-Japi is just another [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page Mediawiki API] for Java.
+Mediawiki's have a built in API see the [http://mediawiki-japi.bitplan.com/mediawiki-japi/api.php Mediawiki API of this site].
 To access such an API via Java a Mediawiki API Java Client library is needed.
-See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code#Java for a list of such clients.
+See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code#Java for a list of such clients. Mediawiki-Japi is another one.
+== Why Mediawiki-Japi? ==
+* Mediawiki-Japi is built around the XML/Json messages that are used to communicate. This interface changes frequently so the structure of
+the Java-code needs to stay up-to-date. This is achieved by
+** generating the Java code from the XML message structure see [[jaxbgenerator]]
+** testing the Java code against [[ExampleWikis]]
 == How to get it ==