ZBay. A Ziptie/Ebay Mashup
![]() |
Plug-in Description
Now you have a simple way to search Ebay from within ZipTie. Simply right click on a device in your inventory and find the current listings for that device on ebay shown to you in a sortable view in Ziptie. In addition you can execute keyword searches from within Ziptie by clicking on the Ebay icon in the main toolbar.
This plugin is a Mashup of services provided by Ziptie and Ebay. Its a great example of how web services can be accessed from within a rich client application. Read more about Ebay Web services here.
The default username/password/token used in this application has a 5000 queries per day limit. If you plan to use this plugin extensively, please generate your own Ebay username/password/token. See the Ebay developer website for more details.
Have fun!
Nik Bhattacharya
Deployment Instructions
Unzip the plugin to the Ziptie Client\plugins directory. Go to the Ziptie Client\configuration directory and add the following line to the config.ini under the org.osgi.framework.bootdelegation section (anywhere in that section should work):
com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl, \
Restart your client and you should be good to go!
Client Plug-in ZIP File
- Login to post comments





This is really cool.
I often have to buy gear for testing, etc. and this lets me find it quickly. Great tool!