Develop apps with Web services and the eBay SDK, Part 1: Build an eBay search engine

Level: Intermediate

Alex Garrett (alex@thinkpig.org), Senior Consultant, Isthmus Group, Inc.

26 Jul 2005

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The face of eBay® that most people are familiar with is the company's Web presence. Learn how to write a small application that allows users to execute ad hoc queries against eBay through eBay's SOAP API. The application uses the eBay Java™ SDK. The use case is targeted at a small subset of the API, but you can generally apply the principles. (Series: Develop apps with Web services and the eBay SDK, Part 1)

In this tutorial

• Conduct an eBay search
  
  
• Write the code
  
  
• Conduct the eBay query
  
  
• Get the query results
  

Prerequisites

This tutorial assumes the following:

• You have joined the eBay Developers Program.
• You have received your devId, appId, and certId.
• You have downloaded and installed the eBay Java SDK.
• You have created a user in the sandbox and have the user ID.
• You have generated an authorization token.
• You can successfully execute the ApiCallsDemo application in the eBay SDK samples folder.

System requirements

None.

Duration

Under two hours

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