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Sample Amazon Associates Store using Java

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A sample application that illustrates how to build an basic storefront using Amazon Associates Web Service, Java and SOAP.

Submitted By: Satyen@AWS  
AWS Products Used: Amazon Associates Web Service
Language(s): Java
License: Apache License 2.0

About This Sample

This sample application is built on Amazon Associates Web Service using Java technology. XFire is used to generate the Java proxy classes and Java Server Faces are used for the UI component. The sample code illustrates how to construct a SOAP request for various Amazon Associates Web Service operations like ItemSearch, ItemLookup, etc. with various request parameter combinations, then shows how to process the response that comes back from Amazon Associates Web Service.

The sample application is based on the 2007-04-04 API version of Amazon Associates Web Service.

Prerequisites

  1. You must have a valid Amazon Web Services developer account
  2. Please see the README file ( Word , PDF ) for other prerequisites and configuration details. (The sample comes with all the necessary JARs.)
  3. Eclipse is used to build this sample - if you don't have Eclipse, you can download it from the Eclipse web site.

Running the Sample

  1. Download and unzip the .zip file in your local directory (C:\)
  2. Follow the instructions in the README file to run the sample

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I get errors running this application, Feb 18, 2008 4:06 AM
Reviewer: ibuchh
Hi, This is a great article. However I get the following stack trace: type Exception report message description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request. exception org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Exception in JSP: /pages/itemSearchResults.jsp:14 11: 12: 13: 14: 15: 16: 17: Stacktrace: org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:504) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:375) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) com.sun.faces.context.ExternalContextImpl.dispatch(ExternalContextImpl.java:322) com.sun.faces.application.ViewHandlerImpl.renderView(ViewHandlerImpl.java:130) com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:87) com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.phase(LifecycleImpl.java:200) com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:117) javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:198) root cause javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.servlet.jsp.el.ELException: An error occurred while getting property "searchResponse" from an instance of class com.amazon.webservices.awsecommerceservice.Wrapper.ItemSearchBean org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:854) org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:791) org.apache.jsp.pages.itemSearchResults_jsp._jspService(itemSearchResults_jsp.java:82) org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:332) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) com.sun.faces.context.ExternalContextImpl.dispatch(ExternalContextImpl.java:322) com.sun.faces.application.ViewHandlerImpl.renderView(ViewHandlerImpl.java:130) com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:87) com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.phase(LifecycleImpl.java:200) com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:117) javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:198) root cause java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError com.amazon.webservices.awsecommerceservice.Wrapper.ItemSearchBean.doRequest(ItemSearchBean.java:131) com.amazon.webservices.awsecommerceservice.Wrapper.ItemSearchBean.getSearchResponse(ItemSearchBean.java:160) sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) org.apache.commons.el.ArraySuffix.evaluate(ArraySuffix.java:314) org.apache.commons.el.ComplexValue.evaluate(ComplexValue.java:145) org.apache.commons.el.ExpressionEvaluatorImpl.evaluate(ExpressionEvaluatorImpl.java:263) org.apache.commons.el.ExpressionEvaluatorImpl.evaluate(ExpressionEvaluatorImpl.java:190) org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.proprietaryEvaluate(PageContextImpl.java:932) org.apache.jsp.pages.itemSearchResults_jsp._jspx_meth_ecs_search_0(itemSearchResults_jsp.java:139) org.apache.jsp.pages.itemSearchResults_jsp._jspx_meth_f_view_0(itemSearchResults_jsp.java:109) org.apache.jsp.pages.itemSearchResults_jsp._jspService(itemSearchResults_jsp.java:71) org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:332) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) com.sun.faces.context.ExternalContextImpl.dispatch(ExternalContextImpl.java:322) com.sun.faces.application.ViewHandlerImpl.renderView(ViewHandlerImpl.java:130) com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:87) com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.phase(LifecycleImpl.java:200) com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:117) javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:198) note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.5.17 logs.

my trouble, Sep 30, 2008 12:45 PM
Reviewer: wezburmeister
to whom that may concern, could anybody tell me how to customize this java web project so that i could search dvd movies with spanish sound in germany (under amazon.de)? kind regards, wez.
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