Getting Started with the Facebook Platform API

In this three-part tutorial you'll learn how to:

• Add the Developer Application to your Facebook account
• Setup Java Client Library in Eclipse IDE
• Use the Facebook Platform API

1. This screencast shows how to create a Facebook Platform application that you can use as a template for your own Facebook applications.(03:35):

2. In order for a Facebook API client to use the API, the user of the client application must be logged in to Facebook. This screencast describes typical scenarios using a simple Java Servlet. (04:15):

3. This screencast tutorial shows how to use the Facebook Platform API in an example that uses data about logged Facebook user and his friends. (03:25):

For this tutorial we have used materials from:

1): Facebook Developers Documentation
2): blogs.claritycon.com

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