Twitter4J is an open-sourced, mavenized and Google App Engine safe Java library for the Twitter API which is released under the BSD license.
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.