Amazon.com Widgets

How To Call Amazon ItemSearch in Flex

If you didn’t know it, this is the “Age of RIA” - or Rich Internet Applications. Several technologies have made writing rich and responsive web applications a reality. Today, we’re going to look at an example of how to use the Amazon ItemSearch web service using Flex 2, Adobe’s RIA development language.

The key elements that I want to cover are:

  • Formatting the Service Request
  • Parsing the Resulting XML response

Before we go too far, take a look at the finished application in the left navigator of this site. Scroll down until you see the Amazon Search widget in the left navigator, enter a Keyword like “Adobe Flex”, select “Books” and press the “Find It” button.

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