[jsword-devel] Jsword development
DM Smith
dmsmith555 at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 13 02:58:52 MST 2006
Kurt Andrews wrote:
> First the good news:
>
> The current build is working for Mac OS X 10.4.x
>
> Now the bad news
>
> WebStart is still broken (for me at least)
>
> There are at least a couple of problems with the kjv with strongs and
> morphology:
>
> The KJV bible has a lot of problems, just a couple of examples from
> John 1
>
> %22tou%22+here+refers+to+the+act+itself+of+seeing+and+so+%0Adoes+not+behave+as+an+article+but+rather+as+a+substantive.
See www.crosswire.org/~dmsmith/kjv2006, where I am working on a fix to
the module. (the problem is not in JSword)
>
> The strongs numbers and morphology tags just don't seem right. Why
> are these generic links being used instead of something
> more intuitive like the Strong's numbers them selves. It wouldn't be
> so bad if each generic link pointed to a different entry in Strong's,
> but sometimes several different links point to the same Strong's
> entry. You can't see it here because it didn't paste for some reason,
> but at the end of verse 49 there are 5 links missing, s14 - s18. The
> last 4 of these links all point to entry 03588.
>
> 49Nathanael <gdef:G3482> answeredS2 <gdef:G611> andS3 <gdef:G2532>
> saith <gdef:G3004> unto him S5 <gdef:G846>, RabbiS6 <gdef:G4461>, thou
> S7 <gdef:G4771> artS8 <gdef:G1488> the Son <gdef:G5207> of GodS10
> <gdef:G2316>; thou S11 <gdef:G4771> artS12 <gdef:G1488> the King
> <gdef:G935> of Israel <gdef:G2474>. <gdef:G3588> <gdef:G3588>
> <gdef:G3588> <gdef:G3588> 50JesusS1 <gdef:G2424>
Again this is a markup problem, not a JSword problem.
>
> personally, i think the font for small verse numbers and these links
> could be just a bit larger. turning off small verse numbers all
> together is even worse.
Just change simple.xsl to your liking.
>
> Now for a few questions
>
> Where does jsword store the books?
~/.jsword
>
> What is the policy for entering these issues in JIRA
Discuss it here first to see where the problem is and whether it is
known or not. Then enter it into JIRA.
>
> Are there any particular issues you'd like me to work on. I have a
> complete java development environment installed with eclipse and
> subclipse, and I am at your service.
Our road map is in Jira. See what you might like to do. Also, I suggest
poking around and finding and fixing bugs you find as a way of becoming
familiar with the code.
More later, I have to leave to catch a plane for Easter vacation.
>
> Shalom,
>
> Kurt
> On Apr 11, 2006, at 12:00 AM, DM Smith wrote:
>
>> Kurt,
>> I have tried the current copies of the 20060409 builds out and
>> they work for me. Earlier on Sunday they were broken, but I fixed and
>> re-released them about 4:15 EST on Sunday. Could you verify the
>> current build? And the current WebStart?
>>
>> See below to responses to the rest of your questions.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> DM
>>
>> Kurt Andrews wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> Well to make a long story short, JSword is a completely new
>> implementation of the SWORD API. The form that it is in is roughly
>> where I found it 2 years ago.
>> It is completely native Java, there are no JNI calls to C++.
>>
>> Not sure where to start in explaining the architecture, but I'll
>> start at the module (the physical file) and work outward. (This is
>> the long story!)
>>
>> There are different kinds of modules (called Book in JSword lingo),
>> Bible, Commentary, Devotional, Dictionaries and the like. These are
>> encoded in various ways. Bibles and Commentaries share a fundamental
>> encoding. Dictionaries and Devotionals share a common one. This is
>> because Bibles and Commentaries can be understood as Book, Chapter
>> and Verse (BCV). Dictionaries and Devotionals are understood as keyed
>> entries. Daily devotionals use some kind of month day notation for
>> their keys. Dictionaries use terms.
>>
>> And for each of these they can be raw or compressed. For Bibles, the
>> compression can be by verse, chapter or book (in practice, none are
>> by verse, and most, if not all are by book.) Compression can either
>> be LZSS or ZIP, but in practice none are LZSS (and JSword does not
>> support LZSS, for this reason).
>>
>> Each module is represented by index files and data files. A key is
>> used to do a lookup in the index file, which gives a start and length
>> in the data file for that indexed item. Compression adds a layer of
>> complexity.
>>
>> In JSword, the Java Sword API that BibleDesktop uses, these are
>> represented by a Sword Backend (see
>> org.crosswire.jsword.book.sword.AbstractBackend)
>> These are wrapped by a BookDriver (see
>> org.crosswire.jsword.book.BookDriver) which represents how a book is
>> represented by a system, in this case
>> org.crosswire.jsword.book.sword.SwordBoodDriver. A BookDriver, knows
>> how to work with Books as a whole. The Backend for LZSS, for GenBooks
>> and for one other kind of module (Webster's dictionary) have yet to
>> be written.
>>
>> Each Book (see org.crosswire.jsword.book.Book) provides the basic
>> mechanisms of digging into what a book is, such as getting meta data
>> about the book (e.g. name, initials, language, type, ...) and getting
>> data from the book (e.g. find).
>>
>> The meta data for a Book is held in a BookMetaData object (see
>> org.crosswire.jsword.book.BookMetaData). In the case of
>> SwordBookMetaData, this comes from the conf that describes the
>> module. This is loaded via
>> org.crosswire.jsword.book.sword.ConfigEntryTable where each line from
>> the conf file is represented as a ConfigEntry having a ConfigEntryType.
>>
>> With this we are able to locate and find a passage of a Bible or
>> commentary, or an entry in a Dictionary or Daily Devotional. But, the
>> modules may be encoded as PlainText, GBF (General Bible Format), ThML
>> (Theological Markup Language, I think), or OSIS. The JSword approach
>> is to convert each of these into OSIS (yes, even OSIS is converted,
>> but trivially). This is done by filters (see
>> org.crosswire.jsword.book.filter.Filter).
>>
>> To display text we use a widget that is able to render HTML. So we
>> convert OSIS to HTML and we use XLST to do this. (See
>> bibledesktop/src/main/resources/xsl/cswing/simple.xsl for the
>> stylesheet we use).
>>
>> Most of the above is hidden from the casual user of the JSword API.
>> The best example of the typical use of the JSword API can be found at
>> org.crosswire.jsword.examples.APIExamples.
>>
>> The above does not discuss indexing or module installation. To do
>> indexing we use Lucene. To do module installation (aka downloading)
>> we use http tunneling. See org.crosswire.jsword.index and
>> org.crosswire.jsword.install for more details.
>>
>> Most of our coding is against interfaces. We use a simple plugin
>> architecture to load factories with the current implementation of a
>> particular interface.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> DM
>>
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