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If you check the Apple - Open Source page, you'll see the list of open source projects included in the Client and Server versions of their operating system.

blojsom is listed.

Awesome. Right now I've got the only posts for the Technorati tag of blojsom. Self-referen-lic-io-us

Rewind to the initial announcement of TextAmerica4J. Life moves fast here on the Internets. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.

Quick updates on what's happened with TextAmerica4J this evening.

• Link pimp Erik Thauvin pimped TextAmerica4J hm'yah and hm'yah.
• I've already updated the javadocs and they're far better than a few hours ago. Mostly that was due to the fact that I could quickly cut and paste from their documentation. And I've already noted some locations where they've cut and pasted their own documentation. Go go Web 2.0! Code now and document later
• Once my textamerica4j project is approved on SourceForge, I'm throwing the downloads up there.
• Mark Lussier has his TextAmerica4R, an implementation in Ruby, finished. He's applied for a project on RubyForge. So, once that's setup, I'll pimp a link to that download.
• Oh, and Erik found an issue with file size limitation in the initial download I put up, so I've fixed that and that JARs you'd download reflect the updated code.

Downloads available, TextAmerica4J with dependencies and the TextAmerica4J standalone.

Conceivably you could build some applications on top of TextAmerica4J and submit it to their API beta program to win $500. Why not download blojsom and write a plugin?

I don't have confirmation that I'm one of the 20 who'll get a $500 bounty, but I think it's going to happen. Mark and I have both agreed that if either of us win the $500, we're giving it all to charity. That's going to be a pretty good feeling.

Is it really that hard to release software these days starting at version 1.0? Hell no! And thus we have the latest in the spawn of blojsom projects.

TextAmerica4J. It's a Java API for interacting with the TextAmerica moblog service. Their XML-RPC API is discussed on their API page.

UPDATE: See end of entry for download links.

Dependencies: Apache's XML-RPC library. I've bundled the one used with blojsom since I've already made the correct changes there for handling data in UTF-8.

You want the source code? Give me a day before I release the source code. I want to update the javadocs. I also want to see if I can enter this API and win one of the slots in their developer's contest. I didn't find any other Java APIs for interacting with TextAmerica from Googling, so this may be the first. If I win one of the $500 prizes, I'm going to donate the entire prize to a charitable organization.

Here is the textamerica4j moblog. Yeah, that photo was uploaded using the TextAmerica4J.entryUpdate method.

Maybe they'd hire me and I could get in on the photo sharing service buyout VC money bandwagon!

Either way, enjoy folks!

Oh, I should also mention that Mark is working on TextAmerica4R, a Ruby API for interacting with TextAmerica. Here is the textamerica4r moblog.

TextAmerica4J is now available on SourceForge. Javadocs.