Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Looking for Java class/package for Firehose

2010-10-02 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Well - the good folks at Google decided to abandon threads in favor of processes in the design of Chrom(e)(ium). And of course, there's Erlang. ;-) So the threads model isn't the only one. Efficiency comes from high-level design, algorithms and profiling. The "Hotspot" JVM is very efficient

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Looking for Java class/package for Firehose

2010-10-01 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Yeah, the Perl library uses "AnyEvent" to achieve threading. -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos Quoting "D. Smith" : perl has the same limitation as php, I decided to use J

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Looking for Java class/package for Firehose

2010-09-30 Thread Taylor Singletary
There's also this Java-based library by the developers behind Gist, though it hasn't seen an update in about a year: http://github.com/gistinc/twitterclient On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:38 AM, John Kalucki wrote: > We have internal consumers here at Twitter that use Twitter4J to > consume streams.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Looking for Java class/package for Firehose

2010-09-30 Thread John Kalucki
We have internal consumers here at Twitter that use Twitter4J to consume streams. Many of the data-driven features you see on Twitter.com, and many more that you can't see run on Twitter4J. -John On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:36 AM, D. Smith wrote: > I am looking for something specifically for Fir

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Looking for Java class/package for Firehose

2010-09-30 Thread John Kalucki
Twitter4J seems to be popular, but I don't have first-hand experience with it. -John On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:32 AM, D. Smith wrote: > Oh, man, I am new to Java, don't even know what Scala is... I've heard > about it that it's like based on Java and it's supposed to be easier > to code than in