Twitter4J 2.0.2 released - adding trends api support, gzip support for faster performance
Twitter4J is an open-sourced, mavenized and Google App Engine safe Java library for the Twitter API which is released under the BSD license.
Twitter4J 2.0.2 is now available for download.
This version is also available in the Maven central repository.
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/net/homeip/yusuke/twitter4j/
Until then, you may use the snapshot repository instead.
http://yusuke.homeip.net/maven2/net/homeip/yusuke/twitter4j/
All applications using prior versions are strongly suggested to migrate to this release in order to take advantage of the gzip compression feature which is twitter.com friendly.
Major features introduced in this release:
- trends API support
Finally Twitter4J supports trends APIs which tells you what is hot in twitter.com.
http://yusuke.homeip.net/twitter4j/en/api-support.html#Search%20API%20Methods
- gzip support
As of Twitter4J 2.0.2, it interacts with twitter.com using gzip compression method.
No additional configuration, nor coding is required.
T4J will start talking to twitter.com in faster and network/twitter.com friendly manner by just using Twitter4J 2.0.2.
Here are the list of fixes included in version 2.0.2
Release Notes - Twitter4J - Version 2.0.2
Improvement
- [TFJ-131] - Use gzip encoding to improve performance and network bandwidth utilization
- [TFJ-132] - handle http response codes correctly to reduce unnecessary retries