After pursuing an undergraduate degree in classics, linguistics, computer science, psychology, and literature, Alex finally settled on a B.S. in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin. His professional career is as checkered as his academic one. He has been the e-commerce architect for a GE Capital company, a lecturer at a University of Wisconsin school, a systems administrator, an acquisitions editor for a small technical publishing company, and a code toad, among other things. Currently, he's a senior consultant with a Madison, WI-based firm and a proud new father.
Summary: 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.
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