[jsword-devel] Update on JSword

[DM Smith]

On Oct 5, 2009, at 9:09 AM, Manfred Bergmann wrote:

> 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?

The biggest things: av11n and ability to write modules (which supports  
personal commentary). We probably should add FTP back in. (Try to use  
HTTP first and on failure go to FTP automatically)

I'm sure there are others, but I haven't thought about it in a long  
time.

> I'd like to help out implementing some missing things when MacSword  
> 2 is finally released after a long time this week.

I would love the help. You have done a great job on MacSword. I'm  
looking forward to the release!

>
>
> 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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