Yahoo! BOSS and Java

A while ago we had to use the Yahoo! BOSS API to search and link to news stories related to various topics.

I had a quick google (no point re-inventing the wheel) but I couldn't turn up any code in Java for this, there's plenty of Javascript/Python/Ruby/etc. code. But we needed to use Java in this instance so I quickly dashed out a simple wrapper for BOSS.

A while later, it was tidied up (a bit) there's still some rough edges, but it's working perfectly well for us.

And yesterday, we decided to release it under the Apache 2.0 License so that in the future anyone Googling for Yahoo! Boss and Java should have something to help.

The buildable source is available at http://code.google.com/p/javaboss/

At the moment it has dependencies on org.json.jar and junit.jar which are included in the repo, I expect at some point we'll move those out and either use maven or ivy to resolve this sort of thing.