Amazon.com Mashups View Larger Image | Francis Shanahan
Wrox Press, Paperback, Published December 2006, 408 pages, ISBN 0470097779 | List Price: $29.99
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"This book will not only demonstrate how developers can utilize Amazon
Web services to create cool mashups but will also help them convert it to money-making
mashups - 'cashups.'"
—Jinesh Varia, Amazon Web Services Developer Relations Team
Amazon.com is advancing the boundaries of the Internet through their powerful
suite of web services. Innovative developers are combining Amazon data with
other freely available sources to create new and interesting applications known
as Mashups. This book teaches you the techniques behind mashup applications
and for the first time shows you how to build them yourself.
The examples in this book show you how to integrate Amazon web services with
APIs from Yahoo!, eBay, Google and YouTube. You'll learn how to combine data
from disparate sources to create new applications using next generation browser
techniques such as AJAX, JSON and Dynamic Scripting. You will learn how to re-purpose
web service data so that it can be consumed from mobile devices such as a cell
phone or PDA. Because both the theory and code are explained, you'll be able
to easily take the lessons in this book to build your own killer mashup applications.
Expert web services developer Francis Shanahan guides you through the basics
of web service consumption using XML, SOAP and REST. Next generation browser
techniques such as AJAX are illustrated in easy to follow step by step examples.
He also completes the picture by introducing advanced techniques to enhance
performance such as the multi-threading web service features of ASP.NET 2.0.
With this book, you'll discover how to:
* Build a generic AJAX library from the ground up
* Consume publicly available APIs such as Yahoo!(r) Search, Google(r), eBay(r)
and YouTube
* Use SOAP to expose Amazon data as RSS
* Convert Amazon data directly into JSON using XSLT
* Plot Amazon.com customers on Yahoo Maps
* Use the OpenSearch API to build your own search service
* Access Amazon data from your cell phone using WML
Who this book is for
This book is for developers who have some prior experience with web technologies
such as Javascript(r) and ASP.NET. This book covers a wide range of technologies
and techniques including ASP.NET 2.0, WML, REST, RSS, SOAP, XML, XSLT, AJAX
and JSON. Everything in the book is built using free tools and explained in
detail, along with the source code which makes this a useful resource regardless
of experience level.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Part I: A Brave New Web.
Chapter 1. Web 2.0.
Chapter 2. The Amazon Web Service Platform.
Chapter 3. Other Mashable Services.
Part II Get Ready to Mash.
Chapter 4. Development Tools.
Chapter 5. The Technology.
Chapter 6. Mashup Techniques.
Chapter 7. Creating Your First Remix.
Part III The Mashups.
Chapter 8. Building Your First Mashup.
Chapter 9. Putting the Browser to Work.
Chapter 10. An Ajax-Powered Wish List.
Chapter 11. Let's Eat!
Chapter 12. A Customer Browser Using JSON.
Chapter 13. Improving Performance.
Chapter 14. Amazon Mobile.
Chapter 15. A Generic Storage Solution Using Amazon S3.
Chapter 16. Further Ideas.
Appendix A. The E-Commerce Service FAQ.
Appendix B. Exercise Answers.
Index.
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