[jsword-devel] Update on JSword

[Manfred Bergmann]

Am 05.10.2009 um 14:22 schrieb 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)

av11n I think is too big a challenge for me but I could have a look at  
writing modules.
AFAIHS the low-level stuff is in jsword-sword and I guess here is the  
actual writing code to be implemented?

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

Did you need some distance from the project? Or were you busy with  
other things?



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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