[jsword-devel] Update on JSword

[Manfred Bergmann]

Hi.

I think switching to Java 1.5 is a good decision.
As you said Java 1.5 is available for Mac OSX 10.4 and AFAIR this was  
the only door stopper.

Then it would also be nice to get Generics in JSword.

What actually is missing to bring JSword up to speed with C++ Sword?
I'd like to help out implementing some missing things when MacSword 2  
is finally released after a long time this week.


Manfred


Am 05.10.2009 um 13:22 schrieb DM Smith:

> I'm working on JSword again after a long time of not being able to.
>
> A couple of notes:
> I've upgraded all the QA tools (e.g. findbugs, checkstyle) and in  
> the process broke the nightly build. I'll fix that shortly.
>
> I am applying patches, fixing bugs, upgrading 3-rd party components  
> and satisfying requests that others have made. I checked in a change  
> for Tonny the other night. (Tonny hopefully you grabbed that. If not  
> you might need to build the jars yourself.)
>
> If you develop on a Mac in Eclipse and have upgraded to Snow  
> Leopard, you'll need to go into Preferences -> Java and delete all  
> the JREs and re-add them. Without doing that, it will not let you  
> run the program w/in Eclipse.
>
> Lucene has just released version 2.9. This is in preparation for the  
> 3.0 release, with the only real difference between the two is that  
> deprecations are being removed. The second minor difference is that  
> 3.0 will require Java 5 as it is introducing Generics into the API  
> (supposedly in a backward compatible, drop-in the new jar, kind of  
> way. We'll see.) I'm working on upgrading to it. Lots has changed  
> internally. The impact to JSword is that our lucene search indexes  
> will need to be rebuilt, requiring us to finish their versioning and  
> handling a version difference in the front-ends.
>
> Speaking of Snow Leopard for Mac OSX. Our policy has been to support  
> old OSes for a long time, but not forever. I.E. the current and two  
> prior. Soon we'll be dropping support for Panther, which came out 6  
> years ago this month. (A year and a half ago Panther was on 23% of  
> all Macs.) This will happen when we go to Lucene 3.0 and Java 5.  
> (Note: Tiger does not install Java 5 but it is available for  
> install. We'll need to provide notes.) I'd still like to release  
> ELEPHANT (see other threads or JIRA for a description) as the last  
> Java 1.4 application.
>
> With the new version of Lucene, I am a new method to PassageTally  
> called getTotal and SearchModifier with (set/get)MaxResults. This  
> optimization will give us a place to hang the total number of hits  
> in a search request when the user only wants to see the top 20 or  
> so. The current code would prioritize all the verses coming back  
> from a search and then sort them. These results were then pruned to  
> the top N verses. Lucene has now simplified how this can happen with  
> its new Collector method. There is a Collector that only retains the  
> hits that have a higher score than the N-th one with the lowest  
> score, but counts all of them. PassageTally is at its best when it  
> is small. So now only the top N are put into the PassageTally and  
> the total hits are recorded.
>
> Lucene has also introduced new Arabic and Persian analyzers. These  
> will make searches on those much nicer. I'll need some testing  
> volunteers for that when I've got it all checked in.
>
> In His Service,
> 	DM Smith
>
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