US Patent 10104007 Stored views of web service application programming interfaces (APIs)

Embodiments presented herein enable an enterprise to rapidly define and generate views of cloud based computing resources. In one embodiment, the cloud based service provider hosts a view service as an additional service layer between customer applications and the web service APIs hosted by that service provider. This intermediary service layer allows customers to compose and access API views generated using the web service APIs published by the cloud based computing service. The service provider may expose the view service itself using an API which allows client applications to invoke an API call to generate a given API view from the corresponding API view definition.