I’ve got a new article on the eBay SDK up at DevX.com. This one is a little different than the one I wrote for the O’Reilly OnDotNet.com site a few months ago; this one starts from the premise that you’ve got an existing product database of some kind and from there discusses how you’d start to integrate that with eBay. For those of you scoring at home, it covers the AddItem and GetSellerList calls.
Feel free to drop me an email or leave a comment here if you’ve got any questions about the article. If you want to kick the tires on the code examples I wrote for the article, you’ll need to first sign up for the eBay Developers Program. Windows programmers, choose the SDK door on the left; non-Windows programmers, through the XML-based API door on your right. That is all.
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Is the SDK vs API advice always strictly appropriate? We’re a Windows shop that uses the API for efficiency reasons. Specially, there is no guessing in the API – it gives us exactly what we want, and exactly how much control we want.
Granted we have a pretty highly tuned system, and we’re very comfortable using XML, but are there other SDK benefits that we’re overlooking?
Hey, Rick. Y’know, it’s really the difference between manual tranny and automatic. Both will get you where you want to go, although automatic is easier to learn, manual gives you a little more control. I don’t think that the majority of developers have the same profile as you guys, but ultimately giving developers choices and accelerating the most common use cases is what we’re all about.