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Asked: 2026-05-16T14:34:05+00:00

Im coding a small app more or less like a word game. There is

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Im coding a small app more or less like a word game.
There is a requirement to validate a word that the user may create to check if it is a valid english word or not.
I have thought of some ways to implement this —
1) Have a hashmap with every english word as a key and a boolean as value. this way i could search for the key at the time of user validation ans so on.
2) Send a HTTP request to some site like dictionary.com to verify if the word exists or not.

Though HTTP request seems to me like a nice way to get this implemented, I wanted to have a hashmap which is at first is filled in and then at periodic intervals updated from a source, say dictionary.com so that I could avoid the latencies involved in the HTTP request implementation.

Any pointers on how I could fill in the hashmap with the words from the source would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
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  1. Editorial Team

    You can use web services and Big Huge Thesaurus. It’s a REST Web services, so you might need tools like Jersey, or RestEasy.

    An alternative would be Oanaware and its SOAP web service.

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