Amazon Web Services

To build the Axis client classes for AWS:
N.b.  DOES NOT WORK WITH AXIS > v. 1.1!!!
mkdir src dist classes
. classify -v /opt/axis-1.1/lib
cd src
CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/home/blaine/lib-repos/mailapi-1.3.1.jar:/home/blaine/lib-repos/jaf-1.0.2.jar
cd ..
java org.apache.axis.wsdl.WSDL2Java /tmp/AmazonWebServices.wsdl --verbose --package com.amazon.soap.axis
javac -d classes src/com/amazon/soap/axis/*.java
cd classes
jar -cvf ../dist/aws-axiscli.jar *


OFFERING = item.  (But it look slike you set the value of offer to "used", etc.)

They use the following terms interchangably
    page:  number of the page of matching data to return.  Each page <= 10 hits.
           Defaults to 1.  (You get TotalResults and TotalPages).
           BULLSHIT!!  TotalResults, TotalPages, do not work for ASIN queries!
           BULLSHIT!!  getPages(), getFeatures(), getProductDescription,
                       getNumberOfPages(), getPUblisher
                       getOfferingType() do not work.  (Always return null).
    mode:  books, music, electronics, etc.
    tag:  Associate id (or webservices-20 or dev token)
    type:  heavy or light (how much info)
    dev-tag = Associate id

PriceTracker example works great.
JavaCodeSample doesn't work for shit.

Can't make > 1 request/second to Amazon servers.

"our price" (Amaz. price) does not reflect availability.
 (They allow it to get stale).
"used price", etc., are minimums.
if no "list price", then list price == our price.

If listing prices, refresh from Amazon once/hour.
Don't try to document Super Saver Shipping.

IMAGES
    Each produce should have a large, medium, and small thumbnail.
    Any one could be an invisible 1 pixel gif though.

ASIN
    Includes ISBN.  (I notice that for some unavailable books they list
     "ASIN" instead of ISBN, but for every test I tried, it's the same
     damned thing, and the getIsbn() returns the same thing.
    Query:  AsinSearchRequest.
    Request format:  asin, tag, type, devtag, offer*, offerpage*, locale*.
        (* = optional)
    asin is a comma-delimited list of ASINs.
    Returns ProductInfo with a Details[] array for each product match
     (Not vendor match, etc.  For ASIN searches, you will get back an
     array of same length as the number of ASINs that you sent.
    offer = { All, ThirdPartyNew, Used, Collectible, Refurbished }
            (I think defaults to new items).
    type = { heavy | lite }

Browse lists are categories.
Catalog is like "Book".
Media has binding, like "Paperback".


Looks like there is no way in the world to get weight or dimensions.

POWER SEARCH
    Power Query String.  name1:v1 and name2:v2 or not name3:v3
    where names/vals can be:
        language:
        keywords:
        title-begins:
        author:  SUBSTRING
        pubdate: A YEAR
        subject:
        title:  SUBSTRING
        format: paperback, hardcover
    They may contain whitespace (what about using "or", etc. in a title?).