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Prerequisites

You must have the proper accounts set up before you can make a request to the Amazon Simple Queue Service. This guide assumes some familiarity with at least one of the programming languages used.

Required Accounts

Account Description Sign Up At
Amazon Web Services account

Provides you with access identifiers for authenticating requests and account management information for all of Amazon's web services.

Once you have an Amazon Web Services account, you can retrieve your access identifiers at any time by going to the AWS web site, pointing to the Your Web Services Account button (on the top right side of the page), then clicking View Access Identifiers.

 http://aws.amazon.com
Sign up for SQS You must also sign up for SQS before you can begin to use the service. http://aws.amazon.com/sqs

Languages and Tools Used

One advantage to web services is they can be integrated into applications using most modern programming languages. This guide includes examples the following languages:

Language API Style Tools Used
Java SOAP

  • Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 Development Kit (JDK 5.0) or equivalent

  • Apache Axis 1.4

  • The Java sample has the following dependencies:

    Amazon
  - AWSSimpleQueueServiceClient.jar        INCLUDED
  
ApacheXMLSecurity: (1.2.1, http://xml.apache.org/security/dist/java-library/)
  - libs/xmlsec-1.2.1.jar
  
Apache Axis: (1.4, http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/ws/axis/1_4)
  - lib/axis.jar
  - lib/axis-ant.jar
  - lib/commons-discovery-0.2.jar
  - lib/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar
  - lib/jaxrpc.jar
  - lib/log4j-1.2.8.jar
  - lib/saaj.jar
  - lib/wsdl4j-1.5.1.jar
  
BouncyCastle.org Signed Jar: (1.5-133	, http://www.bouncycastle.org/latest_releases.html)
 - bcprov-jdk15-133.jar
 
JakartaCommons-cli: (1.0, http://archive.apache.org/dist/jakarta/commons/cli/binaries/)
 - commons-cli-1.0.jar
 
opensaml: (1.0.1, http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/xfire/opensaml/1.0.1/)
 - opensaml.jar
 
WSS4J: (1.0, http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/ws/wss4j/)
 - wss4j.jar
 - keys/x509.PFX.MSFT
 
XalanJ: (2.6.0 , href=http://archive.apache.org/dist/xml/xalan-j/)
 - bin/xalan.jar
C# SOAP
Perl REST (using HTTP POST) or HTTP Query

The Perl example uses the following dependencies, which can be downloaded from the CPAN web site

  • Crypt::SSLeay

  • Data::Dumper

  • Digest::HMAC_SHA1

  • Digest::MD5

  • # Digest::SHA1

  • HTTP::Date

  • HTTP::Headers

  • HTTP::Request

  • HTTP::Response

  • LWP::Simple

  • LWP::UserAgent

  • MIME::Base64

  • Time::HiRes

  • URI::Escape

  • XML::Simple

  • XML::XPath

Be sure to download and install the toolkits and technologies used in this guide before proceeding. (Click on the tool or technology name above to go to its web site for more information.) We'll verify that the tools are set up properly in the next section.

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