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AWS Forums

Visit the AWS forums to ask questions or provide feedback about AWS.There is a forum specifically for

AWS development in Java as well as forums for individual services such as Amazon S3. AWS engineers

monitor the forums and respond to questions, feedback, and issues.You can subscribe to RSS feeds for

any of the forums.

To visit the AWS forums, visit aws.amazon.com/forums

AWS Toolkit for Eclipse

If you use the Eclipse IDE, you might be interested in the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse, which provides

integration of the SDK for Java with Eclipse, an explorer window to view and work with your AWS resources,

and more.

For information about setting up and using the Toolkit for Eclipse, see the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse Getting

Started Guide.

SDK for Java Source Code and Samples

The complete source code for the AWS SDK for Java is distributed under the Apache License and is

hosted on GitHub at the following URL:

• http://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java

Included with the SDK code is the code for all of the samples that are packaged with the SDK. For more

information about the samples, including instructions for running the samples using the command-line or

the Eclipse IDE, see SDK for Java Code Samples (p. 67).

AWS SDK for Java Code Samples

The samples directory in the Java SDK download includes a number of code samples that demonstrate

how to use the SDK for Java to work with a number of different AWS services.

Note

If you need instructions for downloading and installing the AWS SDK for Java, see Getting

Started (p. 4). Since the complete source code of the SDK for Java is available on GitHub, you

can browse the sample code there, as well.

Topics

• List of Code Samples (p. 67)

• Building and Running the Samples using the Command Line (p. 69)

• Building and Running the Samples using the Eclipse IDE (p. 70)

List of Code Samples

The code samples that are currently available include:

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