Hi,

I don't have any specific knowledge about how you get started with Eclipse but I'll walk through the basics of how all of this works for you.

Our API is a web service delivered in JSON format. This means you have to query it (like requesting a webpage) to get data back. The libraries you see on our libraries & wrappers page is code written in different languages that "wrap" around our API. A few of them are for Java.

Basically, they do all of the heavy lifting so all you have to do is punch in your API key and start calling methods.

There is nothing to "download" per-say, you have to write that code. If you are not a programmer, you will find this all very confusing and hard to do. The API is a "expert" feature.

Last thing to mention, git is a SCM (source control management) tool. Like SVN or Mercurial. It's not something you download. You can think of it as a tool like Eclipse. Part of a developer toolkit.

Hi,

As Travis said, you don't need to download something for use an API.

You just need a personal API key to put in API's urls like that : http://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=API_KEY&query=Iron+Man

So you should try to start calling the API by an URL and get the JSON response. http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/networking/urls/readingWriting.html

And after that, you can see how deserialize json data by using Jackson library for exemple or an other. http://jackson.codehaus.org/

It's all you need to start in JAVA. Don't try to import project from someone else to begin.

Cheers.

Thanks a lot for the answers. This clears up a whole lot. I will try to incorporate it in my program. Thanks guys.