eBay has Open Sourced its SOA platform

Last month, eBay released its open source site, http://www.eBayOpenSource.org, with a mission to open source some of the best of breed technologies developed within eBay Inc. to the community. The first open sourced project, code named Turmeric, is a comprehensive SOA platform for scalable development, deployment, management and monitoring of services.

Turmeric is being released under the Apache License (a copy is available here).

As with any first public release of an existing internal code base you may encounter some rough edges. If that happens, please help us make the project better by filing an issue or posting to a discussion forum!

Read more about Tumeric here.

709 Trading, Shopping, Merchant Data API Docs Now Available

Please remember to use a test environment when updating applications to use a new schema version.

To find out when a version of the API will be available, see the table at the top of the Release Notes for that API.

You can find the latest API documentation at the eBay Developer Documentation Center.

New VeriSign Certificate for Open eBay: March 1, 2011

For Open eBay app developers: on March 1, 2011, we will update the VeriSign certificate at http://developer.ebay.com/certificates/production.cert.

Make sure your Open eBay apps switch to using the new certificate to verify subscription calls from eBay. You can find instructions here: http://developer.ebay.com/DevZone/open-ebay-apps/Concepts/OpeneBayUGDev.html#signature.

Announcing a Powerful New Open Commerce Platform

As some of you may have already read, we are launching a new open platform business that combines the resources of both eBay and PayPal in one powerful commerce solution. Separately, the eBay and PayPal Developer Communities have done incredible work and continue to wow us every day. But the greatest success stories have always been when we are able to combine the full strength of both platforms and deliver a value proposition that enriches your products and services. I am very excited about what our new platform business will mean to our Developers and the new opportunities it will create. The team we are assembling under Matthew Mengerink's leadership are dedicated, talented folks who are passionate about helping our Developers and Partners be successful. To hear more from Matthew, see his blog post here: https://www.thepaypalblog.com/

Coming Soon: New VeriSign Certificate for Open eBay Apps

Attention Open eBay developers: the VeriSign certificate used for subscription calls between Open eBay and your application will expire in early March.

Before that happens, the Open eBay team will publish a new certificate for your application to use, and instructions for its use, here: http://developer.ebay.com/DevZone/open-ebay-apps/Concepts/OpeneBayUGDev.html#signature.

Watch this space for updates, and if you have any questions, please file a support ticket: http://developer.ebay.com/support/developersupport/request/default.aspx

Thanks,

-Open eBay team

New API for Browsing Inventory on Half.com

Half.com is launching a brand new Half Finding API, which will help streamline the search and browse functionality for items listed on Half.com. The API includes the findHalfItems call, which returns a paginated list of items for a specific product ID, sorted by price. In addition, you can filter items based on item condition and seller. You can retrieve a maximum of 1500 items for a given product through this API.

See the Half Finding API documentation for more information.

Major Change to Large Merchant Services: UTF-8 encoding is required starting Feb 14, 2011

Important Announcement

Beginning 2011-02-14, Large Merchant Services will require all input files to be UTF-8 encoded. Other encodings (e.g. ISO-8859-1) will not be rejected by the system, but some characters may not be rendered correctly on the View Item page.

 

Please make the required changes in your application.

 

Thanks,

eBay Developer Technical Support Team