New to this; completely lost.

[Tictoon]

Hi, I'm trying to use this API for a school coding project, but I
really don't know where to start.

I think you're supposed to put the Jar file in the application's
folder but this is a school computer so instead, I tried running the
java program we use (DrJava) with the -cp command and pointed it to
the directory where I had the .jar file stored. that didn't work, I
still got an import error when running the quickstart file from the
main page. After that I tried pointing the -cp command to the actual
jar file; still no luck

I've asked my teacher, but he doesn't know and hasn't been able to
find out, so I'm hoping I can get some input from here?

please and thank you,

Tictoon

[Jonathan Griggs]

Hello Tictoon -

Assume this local directory structure:

[your project directory]

    |

    ---- lib 

    |

    ----com

         |

         -----mypackage

               |

               ------MySource.java

Here are some steps you can take:

1. Register for a clientId and clientSecret with Microsoft's Windows Azure Marketplace as described here: Documentation (follow only the first 2 steps)
2. Download the latest jar with dependencies from here: http://microsoft-translator-java-api.googlecode.com/files/microsoft-translator-java-api-0.6.1-jar-with-dependencies.jar
3. Move the jar into [Your Project Directory]/lib
4. Ensure that you are setting the following two properties in your source code (MySource.java):
5.          Translate.setClientId("YOUR_CLIENT_ID");
6.          Translate.setClientSecret("YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET");
7. From your project root, execute the following commands
8.         javac com/mypackage/MySource.java -classpath lib/microsoft-translator-java-api-0.6.1-jar-with-dependencies.jar;
9.         java -cp lib/microsoft-translator-java-api-0.6.1-jar-with-dependencies.jar;  com.mypackage.Mysource 

I hope that is enough help to get you up and running. Good luck on your school project!

-jonathan

[Jonathan]

FYI, #9 has a capitalization typo w/r/t MySource. If you were cutting and pasting, it should be:

        java -cp lib/microsoft-translator-java-api-0.6.1-jar-with-dependencies.jar;  com.mypackage.MySource