TaxCloud Files

FedTaxAPI.jar v1.0

Provided by The Federal Tax Authority (FedTax.net)

TaxCloud is a free, web-scale sales tax calculation engine designed to support all Internet merchants.

This release is the initial version of the Java API code that enables merchants to quickly incorporate TaxCloud web services.

Requires Java 1.6. 

Other requirements:
axis.jar (Apache Axis)
commons-logging.jar (Apache Commons)
commons-discovery.jar (Apache Commons)
log4j.jar (Apache log4j)

Installation:
Place the FedTaxAPI.jar file in your application's lib directory, along with any of the other required jars that are not already included in your application.

You will need to create a merchant account at https://taxcloud.net/ to get an apiLoginID and apiKey which is required for each web service call.

For the VerifyAddress service you will need a USPS userID. 

Since the web services are all HTTPS connections you will have to add the TaxCloud certificate to your application's keystore. The URL for the TaxCloud server is at: https://api.taxcloud.net/1.0/TaxCloud.asmx?wsdl.
You can download the certificate from the server and add it to your keystore using keytool. Usually you would create a new jssecacerts file for this purpose and place it in the lib/security/ folder in your Java installation.
The application needs to have this directory as a part of its classpath to be able to pick up the keystore. 

Consult the JavaDocs for implementation details. A detailed developer guide is available from FedTax.net. Please contact integration@taxcloud.net for more information.

Debugging:
You can add the following line to your log4j.properties file to enable TaxCloud debug logging.
log4j.logger.net.taxcloud = DEBUG

Contact information:
https://taxcloud.net - main company site
http://dev.taxcloud.net/ - developer site
integration@taxcloud.net - developer contact email