Posting tweets from a java application

Question

I want to auto tweet from a java application. What is the simplest way to do it? Can i avoid using libraries like Twitter4j etc.,

I need an implementation for a simple a

Answer 1

Twitter has a REST web API, and a lot of documentation. For reference:

http://dev.twitter.com/doc

While you don't necessarily need Twitter4J, it does make it easier. Otherwise you would need to assemble your own URL requests and take care of authentication. They offer more than one style:

http://dev.twitter.com/pages/auth_overview

Traditionally, OAuth is the preferred style for desktop application to web server integration--but that protocol is a bit complicated.

There's nothing that says you can't create your Tweet() method to hide away the details of using Tweet4J or hand-rolling the request yourself.