This guide explains how to implement an Amazon Associates Web Service operation and process the response using multiple programming languages. You can use these examples as a model for implementing all of the other Amazon Associates Web Service operations in a more sophisticated website or application.
The information in this guide is meant to be read sequentially. Each concept and implementation detail builds upon the previous ones. We recommend, therefore, that you read this short guide from front to back cover and actually perform the tasks described.
This guide does not cover the Amazon Associates Web Service API in any depth. Nor does it discuss most concepts that are central to the Amazon Associates Web Service API. For a full discussion or each Amazon Associates Web Service operation and for a discussion of how to use those operations together to create an Amazon Associates Web Service-driven application or website, go to http://aws.amazon.com and read the Amazon Associates Web Service Developer Guide.