Google Data Protocol

This article is about the Google Data Protocol. For the software company, see G Data.

GData

Stable release	2.0.17 / April 20, 2012 (2012-04-20)
Written in	Java
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Software development tools
Website	https://developers.google.com/gdata/

GData (Google Data Protocol) provides a simple protocol for reading and writing data on the Internet, designed by Google. GData combines common XML-based syndication formats (Atom and RSS) with a feed-publishing system based on the Atom Publishing Protocol, plus some extensions for handling queries. It relies on XML or JSON as a data format.

Google provides GData client libraries for Java, JavaScript, .NET, PHP, Python, and Objective-C.

See also

• Open Data Protocol (OData) – competing protocol from Microsoft

External links

• GData
• Learning from THE WEB by Adam Bosworth - the vision behind GData