Welcome to the Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS) Software Development Kit (SDK). This SDK provides all the information you need to create Web sites or applications that integrate ECS as well as diagnose and resolve any problems that you may be having.
The SDK is divided into the following sections:
The Getting Started section gives you the information you need to begin using ECS immediately, including how to sign up, an overview of ECS and tour of features.
Architecture and Planning Guide
The Architecture and Planning Guide contains information about the architecture of and potential uses for ECS, including what data is provided through ECS, sample sites and development considerations.
The Programming Guide contains a detailed description of how to submit requests to ECS and the the data that is returned by the service, as well as handling errors, using XSLT and troubleshooting guidelines.
The API Reference is a detailed reference to the syntax of ECS requests, including operations, response groups, searching and sorting. The API Reference also contains a detailed error list and WSDL/Schema locations and versioning information.
The Release Notes contain the latest information about new features, changes, and known issues in the current version of ECS.