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

2010-09-30 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
I've used the Perl AnyEvent::Twitter::Stream CPAN module and the Ruby tweetstream gem. Both of them work just fine, although I think the error handling in the Perl one may have a glitch. The Perl one is lighter on both CPU and RAM use, but that's the nature of Perl vs. Ruby, not something i

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

2010-09-30 Thread Taylor Singletary
While it's in Scala, not Java, I've heard good things about @alejandrocrosa's Scala-TwitterStreamer : http://github.com/acrosa/Scala-TwitterStreamer -- you should be able to make use of it fairly easily in a Java environment. We'd love to start collecting libraries built around the Streaming API.

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

2010-09-30 Thread D. Smith
Hello there! I am pretty experienced with using PHP for Twitter, but now I want to use firehose and Java seems to be a much better fit because of 'Threads', so I can listen to Firehose the pass a job to a thread and return right away. PHP cannot do that, well, maybe to some crazy hacks that I am no