Walkthrough: AWS: Java Code Sample: Step 2

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2) Unpackage included files to a directory 

Use WinZip or your favorite unzipping program to extract the Amazon software development kit (SDK) into an empty directory. If you did it right, you'll have a set of files and directories that look like this:

% pwd
/home/Rick/amazon/kit

% ls
AmazonWebServices/

% ls AmazonWebServices
AMAZON_LICENSE.txt              SoapRequestSamples/   XSLTSamples/
API Guide/                      PHPSample/            SoapResponseSamples/
GNU_GENERAL_PUBLIC_LICENSE.txt  PriceTracker/         VBAMacro/
JavaCodeSample/                 READMEFIRST.txt       XMLResponseSamples/

In DOS:

C:\cygwin\home\rick\amazon\kit>dir AmazonWebServices

 Volume in drive C has no label
 Volume Serial Number is FFFF-FFFF
 Directory of C:\cygwin\home\rick\amazon\kit\AmazonWebServices

.              <DIR>        02-16-04  9:07a .
..             <DIR>        02-16-04  9:07a ..
AMAZON~1 TXT        26,422  01-29-04  9:29a AMAZON_LICENSE.txt
APIGUI~1       <DIR>        02-16-04  9:07a API Guide
GNU_GE~1 TXT        14,952  07-15-02  9:59a GNU_GENERAL_PUBLIC_LICENSE.txt
JAVACO~1       <DIR>        02-16-04  9:07a JavaCodeSample
PHPSAM~1       <DIR>        02-16-04  9:07a PHPSample
PRICET~1       <DIR>        02-16-04  9:07a PriceTracker
README~1 TXT         6,819  02-04-04  4:49p READMEFIRST.txt
SOAPRE~1       <DIR>        02-16-04  9:07a SoapRequestSamples
SOAPRE~2       <DIR>        02-16-04  9:08a SoapResponseSamples
VBAMACRO       <DIR>        02-16-04  9:08a VBAMacro
XMLRES~1       <DIR>        02-16-04  9:08a XMLResponseSamples
XSLTSA~1       <DIR>        02-16-04  9:08a XSLTSamples
         3 file(s)         48,193 bytes
        11 dir(s)       19,181.03 MB free

You should read the READMEFIRST.txt. When you're done with that, load the index.html file from the API Guide directory into your favorite browser. This is the main AWS documentation.

Before you get too carried away compiling and modifying the code in JavaCodeSample, you should make a copy of this directory and work in that new directory.

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Rick (rgu@TheWorld.com) Umali
Last Update: 2/24/2004