Adoption and community support are two measures that help determine whether an idea will thrive in the real world. As long as Amazon Flexible Payments Service is still in a limited private beta, it's hard to gauge success by adoption; however community support is still valid as a metric.
So Phil Burns' efforts are particularly interesting to me. Phil created a VB.NET library for FPS--something that I personally believe will be valued by the rest of the community. Experience says that VB.NET developers are highly interested in eCommerce.
As he points out in his blog posting, payments is more involved than simple "download and run". However if you are a VB.NET developer Phil has freed you from the tedium of rewriting C# code into VB.NET.
Do you know of other libraries or extensions to this service? If you do, we'd love to hear from you.
-- Mike
Mike,
Really appreciate what you guys are doing for the developer community. Please take a look at my post below for my assessment of things to come.
http://abhishek.tiwari.com/2007/08/05/amazon-the-services-operating-ecosystem/
There are some additional web services, which I would love to see come in frution.
Abhishek
Posted by: Abhishek | August 13, 2007 at 11:08 AM
Hey Mike - I'm pretty excited about FPS I do hope that the VB.Net Library will be helpful to other VB.Net programmers. I'm hoping to put out an updated library that makes some of the calls involved a little more straight forward, it takes quit a bit of studying and tinkering to fully understand the throughput for FPS. If anyone has suggestions for the library, please let me know!
Posted by: Phil801 | August 13, 2007 at 11:39 AM
Hi Phil,
Feel free to add your code in our community code section (in resource center) More info here: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2007/06/calling_all_com.html. By doing that, others will be able to find your cool codesample more easily.
Jin
Posted by: Jinesh | August 14, 2007 at 12:03 PM