Online Chapter on using Web-based Services

Dear All,
I just added a new chapter to my ["Killer Game Programming in Java"|http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/~ad/jg/] website. It's about programming techniques for writing standalone programs that employ Web-based service APIs for searching Google, Amazon, eBay, and Yahoo.
As a test-bed, I've implemented an application which sends a book title to a service, and gets back a PNG image of the book's cover. I've written five versions: one each for Google, Amazon, and eBay, and two aimed at Yahoo.
It's chapter 33 "Using Web Service APIs", located in the "Networking" section, about 2/3 of the way down the page.
Your comments are appreciated.
- Andrew
Edited by: AndrewDavison on Jun 30, 2009 2:39 AM

rukbat wrote:
kajbj wrote:
Your comments are appreciated.Please don't post unsolicited announcements in these forums.
Kaj
Yes, I've seen that, but they are old, and I don't want to resurrect them.

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