[jsword-devel] Jsword development

[Kurt Andrews]

I tried the bible desktop but the installer isn't working quite  
right.  It will download a jnlp file and clicking on that will  
quickly open the java cache viewer followed by an instance of  
com.sun.javaws, but both of those just shutdown without doing  
anything.  Then I tried downloading the tar ball with the jars in it,  
uncompressed it into the /Applications sub-directory, modified the  
jsword.sh shell script so that the Darwin classpath would be set,  
then ran the shell script from the command line.  Here are the results:

NB:  The Java environment on my Mac is what came from the factory  
(ver. 1.4.2.09)
Last login: Sun Apr  9 16:02:52 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
kurt-andrews-computer:~ kandrews$ cd /Applications
kurt-andrews-computer:/Applications kandrews$ cd jsword-1.0.2-20060409
kurt-andrews-computer:/Applications/jsword-1.0.2-20060409 kandrews$ ./ 
jsword.sh
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError:  
org/crosswire/bibledesktop/desktop/Desktop (Unsupported major.minor  
version 49.0)
         at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
         at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:539)
         at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass 
(SecureClassLoader.java:123)
         at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:251)
         at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:55)
         at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:194)
         at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
         at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:187)
         at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:289)
         at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java: 
274)
         at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:235)
         at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java: 
302)
kurt-andrews-computer:/Applications/jsword-1.0.2-20060409 kandrews$

I've downloaded and installed the subclipse plugin so one I get  
things running, if there are any todos maybe I could help out.  I  
don't plan on bailing out of the c/c++ development, but I use  
eclipse, ant, and clearcase every day at work so that type of  
environment is more familiar to me and I can probably start  
contributing faster.

I'm curious about how jsword works with sword modules.  Do the jsword  
classes use JNI to make calls to the sword module?  I can't seem to  
find the JNI in the source code anywhere, but I haven't found and  
information on the gbs format either so how did you figure out how to  
read it?  May be there's less to the xml2gbs import than I think