What is a way in which suggestions for places could be obtained using the places restful api? Would this be a search by category? If so how can I obtain a list of possible categories?

I don't see hardly any 2013 activity here? Is there a reason for this? Is there another api to use for the same information? Thanks

I will be making calls from J2EE environment to places rest api. Is GSON the best option for converting the response into Java objects? Does it support everything that is returned from the places...