Bing language Translation API integration with Java- microsoft-translator-java-api

Google Translation is very popular and widely used for language translation as it is now paid service,
so i  came to know about Microsoft Translator (Bing Translator), it is providing free API up to 2000,000 character/Month to translate.

Key features and point-

• Provides java wrapper around microsoft translator (Bing Translator)
• Developed as alternative of Google Translator
• Follow coding standard, naming, functionality and usage patterns of widely used google translation API

This is very very simple to use -Follow steps

• First Download JAR for API- http://code.google.com/p/microsoft-translator-java-api/  with all dependencies
• Now obtain client secret key and client id in order to access API , see this http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh454950.aspx
• After this create a simple java class and just write this code-
• Don't forget to add JAR in your project's class path



package translation;

import com.memetix.mst.language.Language;
import com.memetix.mst.translate.Translate;

public class MicrosoftTranslator {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        
        Translate.setClientId("secret client id");
        Translate.setClientSecret("secret key");


        String translatedText = Translate.execute("hello", Language.ENGLISH, Language.FRENCH);
        System.out.println(translatedText);
    }
}



• Enter your key and id in code, you can change language with available list, and run this code
• To use this in web application , you must handle SSL certificate