I'm glad to present JBomb, the first Java wrapper for Giant Bomb's RESTful API (which is powered by the nice and helpful guys from Whiskey Media).

To put it simply, JBomb's purpose is to add one layer of abstraction above the requests made against the API. I'm at the design process, but I'll probably use JSON, RESTlet utilities and some minor libraries and specifications, like JSR-310 (a.k.a. javax.time) or Joda Time. The use of fresh tools can help in a significant way how software is made, and problems like deprecation and concurrency are eliminated, because they are already (in part) solved. java.util.Date for one, sadly qualifies for both problems.

That bein' said, my intention with JBomb is that you won't have to worry a lot with the requests themselves (e.g. JSON request structure), because it'll all be wrapped in simple method calls, something similar to jbomb.search(searchParameteres, fields_list).

And, of course, JVine will be free and available for open collaboration.

Keep checking the site for news! I pretend to keep it up-to-date.