Hi,
My name is Mike Bradley, and I've been considering writing an open
source Biblical library management system.
I'd link you to a website for more information, but I haven't put one up
yet. Hopefully, if all goes well, someday it will be a competition of
sorts to programs such as yours, eSword, PCStudyBible, Logos, etc. I
say "competition of sorts" as I want to focus more on the library
management side of things and a little less on the Bible study side of
things, something I haven't seen done yet. As an example of the
difference, most of these programs are mostly about the Bible, whereas I
plan for my program to be primarily about texts that aren't Bibles (nor
lexicons, dictionaries, or concordances).
As a good programmer, I've been scouring the net looking for libraries
and such that I can use from other people so that I don't have to write
all the code myself. So, I've happened upon jSword and I am very
intrigued. I believe jSword might be very usable for me in my project,
so that I can focus more on the features I want to add and less on the
book implementation. I may need to modify some stuff as I will probably
need a richer set of "keys" for non verse-based and non-index based
texts. But I'll have to dig into the code and figure out what's there
first.
My first newb question is, how do I add books? I ask this because the
APIExamples.java primer assumes that the KJV is installed and it isn't.
Never mind, I found my answer. I'll post it in case anyone else is
looking for help on this issue.
Download the following:
http://www.crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/packages/raw/KJV.zip
Extract the zip file to a location that I'll refer to as [PATH]
Add the following code into the main() method of APIExamples.java (add
it before the readPlainText() is called) and import what is necessary to
compile the new types.
<Code>
try
{
File file = new File("[PATH]/mods.d/kjv.conf");
URI bookRootPath = new URI("[PATH]");
SwordBookMetaData sbmd = new SwordBookMetaData(file,
BIBLE_NAME, bookRootPath);
SwordBookDriver.registerNewBook(sbmd);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
</Code>
Is this something that you want me to check-in, or is that not helpful?
The example still doesn't fully work as the next methods
(readStyledText(), readDictionary(), search(), etc) throw exceptions.
I'll get to work fixing these, but maybe someone else out there who
knows the code base should do it.
That's it for now. If there is anyone out there who would like to talk
more about what I'm doing or what you're doing, write me at MrQBerrt
<AT> gmail <DOT> com
May the Lord make His face shine upon you,
-Mike