eBay Developer Newsletter


January 31, 2007



	top stories



	Deprecated Objects to be deleted Feb 07 Find out how new schema versioning strategy impacts your application. read story >



	Auction Extensions now prohibited Fee Circumvention policy updated, impacts auction extension tools. read story >



	Q4 & Full Year 2006 earnings released Strong fourth quarter results capped an outstanding year for 2006. read story >



	technical alerts & product news

Reminder: Transaction ID Expansion
As of late January, eBay transaction IDs will be expanding to the 7 billion range. Changes are currently scheduled to go live to production this week, the week of January 29th. Check the Production System Announcement for recent updates on this issue. read story >

Upcoming changes to UPS calculated shipping requirements
As of early March 2007, eBay will enforce the dimensions requirement on listings in order to guarantee a more accurate shipping cost calculation for buyers. We recommend that you update your application early to be ready for this dimensions requirement. Please see the API documentation for details on how to specify package dimensions when listing an item with calculated shipping. read alert >

Sellers Can Apply Discounts Across Listings
A new tool called called Markdown Manager for eBay Stores subscribers allows sellers to offer discounted pricing to their customers by putting Fixed Price and Store Inventory items on sale. API documentation covers the impacted API calls, including SetPromotionalSale, SetPromotionalSaleListings and GetPromotionalSaleDetails. full story >

developer community

Ning + PHP + REST = cool eBay photo mashup
Corrected links!: Delyn Simons brings you another Cool Tool review, featuring Ning Photos for eBay sellers. This app was built by David Sklar, best-selling PHP author and software architect, using PHP and some of eBay's new REST calls that we launched in December. read David's thoughts > and Delyn's review >

Free Developer Training from Bungee Labs - Bay Area
Bungee Labs will be back in the Bay Area on February 20th and March 6th conducting free training classes for developers on their next-generation, web-based development platform. Alan Lewis met with them to help gear training specifically for eBay Web Services developers (that means you). sign up for free developer training >

Developer Forums Thread of Every Other Week
Recently in the Java SDK forum, Recently in the Java SDK forum, developer dakasta was struggling with a known InstallAnywhere issue with the eBay SDK for Java in Linux. After a helpful pointer from zhouwei.developersupport@ebay.com, dakasta posted his resolution, which was turned into a Knowledge Base article for other Java developers who might find it helpful: "What simple and excellent resolution! " view thread & post answers >



	categories & item specifics

Mid-February Category changes
Five categories -- Cameras & Photo, Clothing, Shoes & Accessories, Consumer Electronics, Health & Beauty and Everything Else-- have brand new category structure and some item specifics changes. check updates >

product updates

API Version: 497/493i

Express Shopping Cart

Safeguarding Member IDs

Java SDK 495 full release

.NET SDK 495 full release

events

Jan 30- Feb 1: DEMO 07
Feb 14-15: LinuxWorld Summit

developer pulse

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