Google Opens Up Calendar API

Adding to its growing list of "GData" application programming interfaces (APIs), Google on Thursday opened up its new Calendar beta service to third party developers. The API enables external Web sites and applications to integrate directly with Google Calendar and create, edit or delete events.

Google says the Calendar data API, based on Java, can be used in a number of different ways. "You can create a web front end for your group's calendar that uses Google Calendar as a back end. Or you can generate a public calendar for Google Calendar to display, based on your organization's event database." An application or site can also search calendars and display a list of upcoming events.