New Developer Resources

• System Announcements—your first resource for ongoing status of the eBay Web Services Production environment. Check here before reporting any urgent production system issues such as latency, unavailability, errors or call failures.
• Release Notes—a description of the API and API documentation changes associated with a given API release.
• News Blog—a frequently updated blog of news and events for the eBay Developer Program.
• Roadmap—helpful information about upcoming enhancements to developer products. Click on a time period to learn about products that will be or were introduced in that time frame.

• Documentation—the eBay Developer Documentation Center provides links to tutorials, guides, and other documentation for developers that are new to Web Services.
• FAQs—answers to questions about membership, joining, fees, getting started, and more
• Forums—a place for developers to share knowledge and ask questions about building applications using eBay Web Services.
• Knowledge Base—a great resource for resolving technical issues and a rich source of sample code to address specific technical problems.
• Technical support—use Premium Support to get direct access to Developer Technical Support engineers waiting to answer quick questions or work with you to do more extensive research and activities.

• My Account page—the login page for the eBay Developers Program, your first stop to access the business benefits and technical advantages of membership in the eBay Developers Program.
• API Test Tool—a web form that allows you to construct and validate individual calls. The API Test Tool helps you write, validate and troubleshoot your code on an individual API call basis.
• Code Samples—the eBay Community Codebase helps software developers collaborate on creating open source applications using eBay Web Services. The codebase is also a good source for samples to help new developers get started.

• Web Services Tutorial, W3Schools
• IBM developerWorks Web Services, IBM
• O'Reilly XML.com Web Services Primer, O'Reilly
• Web Services and the Microsoft Platform, Microsoft
• Web Services Essentials, Sun
• REST, Wikipedia
• More Web Services links—specifications and journals related to Web Services.

Not ready to start from scratch? You can take advantage of the technical knowledge and experience of other developers:

• eBay Certified Provider Program—the eBay Certified Provider Program provides a pool of qualified third-party developers to serve as a sales channel, consulting force, and development team to ramp up users on eBay.
• Solutions Directory—a place to find a developer who has experience creating or integrating custom software applications built on the eBay API, or a third-party tool that already does what you want to do!