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eBay Launches Software Collaboration Site


By Yvonne L. Lee
July 1, 2005 — 
eBay unveiled at its developer conference a new site for developers to exchange code and to collaborate on projects that use eBay Web services. eBay has been promoting the API to its service as a way for enterprises to create sales applications.

The new site is called the eBay Codebase and can be found at codebase.ebay.com.

The site will have only applications that use eBay’s APIs for searching auctions or for selling items through an auction or direct sale, said Greg Isaacs, director of the eBay Developers’ Program. Isaacs compared the site to BEA’s dev2dev or Sun’s java.sun.com. He said eBay wanted to have its own site rather than working with a site such as SourceForge so it could deal more directly with developers.

Codebase is an extension of the eBay Developers’ Program, which helps third parties create apps that communicate directly with the eBay business logic and database. It provides tools and support to create custom interfaces, functionality and specialized operations not available in the eBay Web site user interface. eBay will seed the site by posting some initial programs. They include a My eBay Eclipse plug-in, a toolbar for the Firefox browser, a collaborative taxonomy application that uses the eBay SOAP API, and a tool for bidding using the TiVO box.

The site contains not just code, but also a developer Web log, forums and system announcements.eBay Codebase participants will operate on two tiers. Initially, members are observers who may subscribe to mailing lists, send patches or suggestions using the project’s main page, update issues on the project issue tracker, and propose new projects. At the project owner’s discretion, observers can become committers, gaining the ability to update code directly.


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