ED API

The web methods for the ED API have been committed, but not yet deployed.

Interesting thing I ran into when trying to do an HTTP Get on google book search using Java's URLConnection.

Google adheres to a slightly different API from other web resources when you try to connect to it.

Found out about it here:

The suggestion in this thread works for google and searchmash (which is a cool little google API that returns results as JSON to you)
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5140278&messageID=9515635

and
This suggestions works for google book search:
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1033250