Display a Static Google Maps in a Java Desktop Application

Displaying a static Google Maps in a Java desktop application sound like something complicated, since is known that Google Maps provide a JavaScript API that can be exploit from web pages based on a Google key dedicated per host. Well, beside this API, Google Maps also provides an URL based API for extracting static Google Maps directly into desktop application, without requiring JavaScript or access keys. This API is very well explained here: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/index.html.
Based on this tutorial, Java can extract and save a Google Maps static map in just a few code lines, without high complexity involved – even if it is very simple it tooked me a while to get to this API, this is why I think to share this here:

try {
    BufferedImage img = ImageIO.read(new URL("http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/
    api/staticmap?sensor=false&size=512x512¢er=Brooklyn&zoom=12&style=feature:
    road.local%7Celement:geometry%7Chue:0x00ff00%7 Csaturation:100&style=feature:  
    landscape%7Celement:geometry%7Clightness:-100"));
    
    File outputfile = new File("map.png");
    ImageIO.write(img, "png", outputfile);
    System.out.println("Saved!");
    } catch (Exception ex) {
         System.out.println("Error!" + ex);
    }

The map below is taken from Google Maps, and it looks like below: