Sentinel Cloud Connect Web Services or Client Library API: How to Choose?

There are two methods of integrating cloud-connected licensing in your application—client library API and Sentinel Cloud Connect web services.

Benefits of Client Library APIs*	Benefits of Sentinel Cloud Connect Web Services
>Quick-to-integrate APIs that can be incorporated directly in an application as they abstract the communication details. >Better performance because of the following built-in features: •Caching (for license models with unlimited concurrency limit and unlimited usage limit.) •Asynchronous usage log update	>Platform and language independent

Benefits of Client Library APIs*

Benefits of Sentinel Cloud Connect Web Services

>Quick-to-integrate APIs that can be incorporated directly in an application as they abstract the communication details.

>Better performance because of the following built-in features:

•Caching (for license models with unlimited concurrency limit and unlimited usage limit.)

•Asynchronous usage log update

>Platform and language independent

* Available only for Java and .NET platforms.