Looks like there's a new eBay API available from the eBay Developers Site. It is a much simpler name-value-pair-based API and my friend Alan Lewis, from eBay has just uploaded a shiny new Actionscript eBay Library. It's an upgrade from the previous library I wrote which was based on the older version of the API. Check out the blog post on the developers site and try it out for yourself!
Charles
There are quite a few open source ActionScript 3.0 libraries that Adobe has…Flickr, YouTube, Mappr, CoreLib, to name a few…and with the addition of the new eBay library (the one used in the San Dimas project), Adobe has decided to make the move from Adobe Labs to Google Code. There are a few reasons for this, but in a nutshell, Google Code is better suited for the open source libraries in terms of collaboration and community involvement. Here’s what’s up now…
I’m excited to see where this will take the libraries in the near future now that it’s even easier for open source developers to get their hands on them. Read more about the move on Darron Schall's blog as well as Mike Chamber's blog.
Charles
I came across the Google Gadgets API today while I was working on my eBay library and I had a silly notion...why not utilize the eBay library together with the Google Gadgets API and create an eBay Gadget! So I did! It's actually very simple and more of a proof-of-concept than anything else, but it works and I think it's actually quite neat.
In a nutshell, the gadget will allow you to search for items, view item details, and even add and remove them from your personalized watchlist. And, as an added bonus, since it uses the Google Gadgets API, this gadget can be used on Google's Personalized Homepage or placed on any website as a regular web widget.
*Update: My laptop with the code for this project has died since I've created this project. That's okay since it wasn't a huge codebase, and newer versions of the APIs I was using have since been released. I wrote the initial gadget in a day, using the alpha ActionScript 3 eBay Library (not the newest beta release, as is on Google Code) and the Google Gadget API. See the screens of what I've done in a couple of hours, investigate the tools and the APIs and start coding!
Charles
