eBay thinks outside with eBox

All of the functions on eBay, such as search and inventory management, will be accessible as services via application program interfaces (APIs). View: Full Story News source: News.com R ead full story...

eBay is rebuilding its technical infrastructure in a project that could lead to the e-commerce giant hosting applications from outsiders An initiative internally referred to as eBox calls for the company to rebuild the technical guts of its eBay com site as a series of modular services rather than a single unified application The idea is that internal engineers--and potentially outside developers--can use these services as building blocks to construct new applications said Eric Billingsley senior director of eBay Research Labs which is behind the initiative br br Billingsley is scheduled to outline the project which he refers to as an open platform on Tuesday afternoon at the eBay developers conference here In an interview with CNET News com on Monday he described the technology and the company s goals in undertaking the services-oriented architecture eBox aims to make it quicker to build applications by providing pre-built services that can be combined to create new applications without extensive coding All of the functions on eBay such as search and inventory management will be accessible as services via application program interfaces (APIs) br br img src= http www neowin net im ages icons viewicon gif border= 0 class= linked-image View a href= http news com com eBa y thinks outside with eBox 210 0-1032_3-6190508 html part=rss tag=2547-1_3-0-20 subj=news target= _blank Full Story a br img src= http www neowin net im ages icons souricon gif border= 0 class= linked-image News source a href= http news com com target= _blank News com a br br a href= http www neowin net i ndex php act=view id=40915 R ead full story a