Google Currency Converter Demo With Eclipse Java Project

• Google provides a Currency Converter API services for Consumption by Client Application.

• The link for this library is listed below:-

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.tunyk.currencyconverter</groupId>
  <artifactId>currency-converter-api</artifactId>
  <version>1.0</version>
</dependency>

• In this Demo, “We will see how to configure it in a Java project with a simple currency conversion”.

• The source code can be checked out from the repository through SVN checkout.The link for the source is listed below:-

• Then currency-converter-api-1.0.jar file will be generated from the above build.

• The depended JAR files to be included in the project are ehcache-core-2.4.3.jar,log4j-1.2.14.jar,slf4j-api-1.5.10.jar,slf4j-log4j12-1.5.10.jar.

• The Project will look like below screenshot after configuring depended JAR.

• The Java code is present in CurrencyConverterDemo.java file and the code is listed below.

package com.google.ts;

import com.tunyk.currencyconverter.api.Currency;
import com.tunyk.currencyconverter.api.CurrencyConverterException;
import com.tunyk.currencyconverter.BankUaCom;
import com.tunyk.currencyconverter.api.CurrencyConverter;

public class CurrencyConverterDemo {
 public static void main(String[] args) {
  try {
   CurrencyConverter currencyConverter = new BankUaCom(Currency.USD, Currency.EUR);
   Float inEuro = currencyConverter.convertCurrency(1f);
   System.out.println("1 USD = "+inEuro+" Euro");
   
  } catch (CurrencyConverterException e) {
   e.printStackTrace();
  }
 }

}

• The output will come in the Eclipse console and look like below screenshot.It is showing 1 USD is converted to 0.73 Euro.