User guide

What is the AWS SDK for Java?

The AWS SDK for Java provides a Java API for AWS infrastructure services. Using the SDK for Java,

you can build applications that work with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic

Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon SimpleDB, and more.

New AWS services are occasionally added to the AWS SDK for Java. For a complete list of the services

that are supported by the SDK for Java, see Supported Services on the AWS SDK for Java home page.

Topics

• About the AWS SDK for Java (p. 1)

• What's in this Guide? (p. 2)

• Viewing the Revision History for the SDK for Java (p. 2)

• About Amazon Web Services (p. 3)

About the AWS SDK for Java

The AWS SDK for Java includes:

AWS Java Library

Build Java applications for AWS using an API that takes the complexity out of coding directly against

a web service interface.The library (aws-java-sdk-version.jar) provides an API that hides

much of the lower-level plumbing including authentication, request retries, and error handling.

Code Samples

The SDK for Java provides a growing number of practical code samples that demonstrate how to

use the SDK to build AWS applications. For more information, see SDK for Java Code Samples (p. 66).

Eclipse IDE support

You can use the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse to add the AWS SDK for Java to an existing project or to

create a new SDK for Java project.

Browse the Source at GitHub

The AWS SDK for Java is open source, provided to you under the Apache License.You can find the full

source code for the AWS SDK for Java and its packaged samples at: http://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java.

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