How to query google through desktop java app?

I'm trying to write a simple Java desktop app to query Google and get the results. I've read so many articles in the past few days. I know that I have to do it through the GWT (Google Web Toolkit), the API that Google offers to progr开发者_JS百科ammatically query its search engine. My problem is that the GWT seems to be useful only to construct AJAX applications. I just want to write a simple desktop app. I am not interested in Javascript, XML or any server side application. Isn't there a way to do it?

Sure, take a look at this approach.

The general idea is that you make an HTTP fetch (using vanilla java.net.HttpUrlConnection or Apache HTTP Client). The magic is in the forming of the URL with the search term, and in the processing of what you get back from Google.

For the exact details on how to do this, see Google's REST search API documentation, including this section.

You can always get a license for the webservice and get the results returned through SOAP, however you did say that you were uninterested in XML. Shame, thats the quickest way. There is always doing a direct request to google through the query URL, since it uses HTTP get.