Boost application development with Amazon Web Services

IBM's developerWorks is publishing a 3-part series on the use of AWS with Java, under the title  Boost application development with Amazon Web Services. Written by Eric Giguere, the tutorial is described as follows:

This tutorial provides an overview of Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS exposes raw product information and key parts of Amazon.com technology to third-party developers for use in their applications. After describing how AWS works in general, the tutorial focuses on the main AWS service, called the Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS). As part of this tutorial, you will develop a small Web application that uses ECS to display book and music information.

You will need to register for an IBM Identifier in order to access this tutorial.

Comments

[Jim Gast]

Many thanks to Eric Giguere for a great set of tutorials. The earliest tutorials are especially easy because all you need is an AWS Secret Key and a web browser. If the tutorial works well in your web browser (it works well in Internet Explorer Version 6.X) his code is easy to read.

If you don't mind a little extra complication, you can generalize it to work well in a very broad spectrum of browsers.

1. Use "innerHTML" instead of "innerText" (and change the content to HTML instead of text).

2. Detect the browser features and avoid getElementById if it doesn't work.

I posted it at http://www.theGasts.net/~jim/aws/browserTester.html
if you want to take a look at the source.

Cheers,
/Jim Gast, jim at theGasts dot net