[jsword-devel] [sword-support] JSword Questions

Sijo Cherian sijo.cherian at gmail.com
Mon Oct 2 08:26:58 MST 2017


Carrie,

Bibledesktop code is not in git mirror , but only in subversion

see the svn checkout instruction at bottom of
https://www.crosswire.org/jsword/svn.html

STEP frontend, also uses Jsword. It is built by Tyndale, code is at
https://github.com/tyndale/step


/s

On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Carrie Steggerda <carriesteggerda at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi DM,
>
> Thanks for the info. Where can I find the code for the BibleDesktop code
> in Swing? (or what is the name for it?) The only swing file I can find is
> jsword-1.6 called "jsword-common-swing-1.6.jar" and I can't seem to run
> that file. I'd love to be able to play around with the graphical interface
> and see the code behind it.
>
> Thanks,
> Carrie
>
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 7:54 PM, DM Smith <dmsmith at crosswire.org> wrote:
>
>> Carrie,
>>
>> Welcome!
>>
>> I’ve added you to the jsword-devel mailing list. The password is mailed
>> in clear text on the first of every month. So don’t using one that is
>> important.
>>
>> JSword is located at GitHub and BibleDesktop is hosted at CrossWire using
>> SVN.
>>
>> I use Eclipse to develop. Others use NetBeans or some other IDE. We’ve
>> got Maven integration, which I don’t use, so I can’t vouch for it. Chris
>> Burrell set that up. We do a nightly build on the CrossWire servers and run
>> automated tests.
>>
>> The BibleDesktop code is in Swing. It’d be great to replace the browser
>> component with JavaFX. Perhaps more.
>>
>> Also consider STEP from Tyndale. This is another frontend, more recent,
>> that uses an embedded webserver to serve Books aka modules.
>>
>> Start at www.crosswire.org/jsword for more dev info.
>>
>> In His Service,
>> DM Smith
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sep 28, 2017, at 12:50 PM, Carrie Steggerda <carriesteggerda at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am a computer science student currently learning about open source
>> software, and have picked JSword as my class project to study on and
>> contribute to. I'd like to subscribe to the mailing list for JSword
>> Developers, and was wondering if I could get some more information on how
>> the development for JSword works. I was wondering what system you use to
>> run your nightly builds, and if you pull the code you have and test it
>> every night, (or exactly how often you run nightly builds). I am also
>> looking at the interface for BibleDesktop, and am wondering if you provide
>> the code for the graphical interface, and where I could find it. I'd be
>> interested in experimenting with the GUI code.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Carrie Steggerda
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Regards,
Sijo
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