[jsword-devel] webstart

[DM Smith]

Troy,
    I am not sure exactly how to do it on the server. Within JBuilder, I 
had a difficult time as I had to upgrade Ant to 1.6.x and also have it 
use my JDK and not JBuilder's compiler.
    I think that there are some hints on how to do it within the JSword 
project as Joe has set up some scripts to do a nightly build.
They can be found in /cvs/jsword/jsword/etc/build:
    settings.global.sh (contains environmental variables which are the 
same on crosswire.org and eireneh.com)
    settings.crosswire.org.sh (contains environmental variables which 
differ between crosswire.org and eireneh.com
    rebuild.sh (which does the build)
    nightly.sh (which wraps rebuild.sh, gathers the output of the build 
and mails it to joe)

I think they may be run from /cvs/jsword/jsword/etc/build.

Some of the things I note.
Joe has it set up to use ant out of his home directory and java from 
/usr/local/java.

Hope this helps.
DM

Troy A. Griffitts wrote:

> DM,
>     Hey, this might be a silly question, but I tried checking out the 
> flashcards project on the server, then running ant, to try your 
> build.xml file.  It failed finding JTextArea.  I curiously poked 
> around and discovered (using the ant -v option) that it was trying to 
> use gcj to do the compile.  Grepped my env for gcj and nothing showed 
> up.  Any ideas how ant is determining that it should use gcj instead 
> of /usr/local/java/bin/javac?  Or better, how to tell it TO use either 
> /usr/local/java or /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_05 as JAVA_HOME?  (I've tried 
> setting paths and env variable already).
>
>     Thanks for your help!
>
>         -Troy.
>
>
>
> On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, DM Smith wrote:
>
>> Troy,
>>
>> I have checked in the changes. Here is a description of the changes:
>> Applied Joe's changes of organizing imports, adding .classpath and 
>> .project.
>> I added build.xml, some files from JSword's common that allow getting 
>> resources from the jar w/ overrides from the local file system.
>> I modified MainFrame.java in the following ways:
>> a) When loading lessons, it looks for a jar with a "lessons" 
>> directory and for the first jar it finds, it gets all the paths for 
>> the lesson files.
>> These are of the form lessons/dir/lesson.flash
>> b) after looking for lessons in the jar, it looks for lessons in 
>> ~/.flashcards/lessons.
>> These are held internally in a map of lesson sets, with each lesson 
>> set containing a set of its lessons.
>>
>> Once we have the tree of lessons, the code creates a list of 
>> checkboxes. The display name of the checkbox is gotten using the new 
>> ResourceUtil.getResource(path), where path is the path of the lesson 
>> (which may be in either the jar or in the home lesson directory or 
>> both).
>> This call returns an URL to the "best" location and using the URL a 
>> connection is opened and an input stream is created, from which a 
>> properties object is loaded.
>>
>> Using the same lookup mechanism, the lessons are loaded.
>>
>> There is an "exercise left for the reader." The editor should be 
>> changed to read from the "best" location and write them to the home 
>> lesson directory.
>>
>> Note this solution does not allow for networked sharing. Lessons are 
>> kept on a per user basis.
>>
>> DM
>>
>> DM Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Troy,
>>>
>>> I have finished and will be in the process of checking it in. (Got 
>>> to read the svn docs to see how to do compares/merges/checkin/...)
>>>
>>> I was able to grok the jar file for the lessons and did not need to 
>>> resort to having a manifest.
>>>
>>> I did not work on the lesson editor.
>>>
>>> I tried to make as few changes to your code as possible so that it 
>>> should still work w/in JBuilder. I did the work in
>>>
>>> In the meantime, I am attaching the jar file and the jnlp file. If 
>>> you could put them into the same directory and edit the "codebase" 
>>> in the jnlp to agree with that location, you can then test the 
>>> change from a browser.
>>>
>>> Let me know how it goes.
>>>
>>> DM
>>>
>>> Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
>>>
>>>> Might anyone be willing to consider writing a webstart installer 
>>>> thingy for our Flashcards application?  We have some students in 
>>>> class who have had trouble unzipping and finding the correct jar to 
>>>> double click, and it would be a great blessing to many people, and 
>>>> me, personally, if we had something to help this process.
>>>>
>>>> SVN checkout with similar to:
>>>>
>>>> svn co https://crosswire.org/svn/flashcards/trunk flashcards
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for considering,
>>>>         -Troy.
>>>>
>>
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