[sword-devel] North Americian mirror for Java Bible

[Michael Paul Johnson]

At 11:45 3/7/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>I've mirrored Joe's Java Bible at http://jmm.ath.cx/projectb.zip
>
>My machine is in Canada so it should be fast for anyone in North America
>(I've got ~2 MBps upstream). If you are on this side of the Atlantic, please
>use this mirror since trans-Atlantic bandwidth is expensive and fairly
>limited. I can't mirror the package here long term but I can help with the
>initial downloads.

Also mirrored at ftp://WorldEnglishBible.com/pub/jbible/projectb.zip (also 
in North America, but it can stay longer, if need be).


>On Tue, 07 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > Troy wrote:
> > > What kind of web interface are you using-- servlets? jsps?
> >
> > XML/XSL/servlets.
> > I would have used JSPs except that they don't mix with XML particularly
> > well (the internal data transfers use XML) and given XSL there isn't a
> > huge amount of demand.
> >
> > > > Shout if you are interested.
> > > > It may make lots of sense for my project to end up being part of 
> Sword which is
> > > > fine by me - I'd be interested in other opinions.
> > >
> > > I would love to help write drivers that read our module formats so that
> > > we might share data.
> > > We'd love to sponsor your project also if you would like to use
> > > CrossWire's services (cvs / web / mail / listserv / ftp / etc.)
> >
> > I've started setting up a SourceForge project but not got very far with
> > it.
> >
> > > Let me know what you'd like to do.
> >
> > I suggest you take a look at the code so far. There are a few bugs
> > that due to my dead NT box I won't get to fix for a week or so, but what
> > is there is good. It is uploading as I type, to:
> >   http://www.eireneh.com/projectb.zip
> >
> > It would probably be a good idea if Troy/someone were to mirror it. It is
> > 6Mb and I have a bandwidth limit... It would also be quicker for most
> > people to access since eireneh.com is in the UK.
> >
> > Un-zip it. Stuff to see:
> > In the bin directory there are some .BATs that should give you a quick
> > idea. There are command line utils and whatnot.
> >
> > It comes with full source which is GPL and may be of some use. If you want
> > to recompile it then make sure you understand how I've made JDK 1.2
> > collections work on JDK 1.1, You may need to edit the classpath a bit.
> >
> > As far as I know it works on:
> >   NT JDK 1.2.2 and MVM
> >   Debian Linux 1.1.4
> >   Win95 JDK 1.2.2 and MVM
> >   NT JDK 1.3-rc1
> >
> > HOWEVER if you use a 1.1 JDK you'll need to add swingall to the classpath.
> >
> > It comes with an embedded apache (tomcat) web-server which you can start
> > using:
> > $ java DTools
> >
> > and on the server tab there is a start webserver toggle. Pointing a
> > browser to one of:
> >   http://localhost:8080/examples/servlet/SPage
> >   http://localhost:8080/examples/servlet/SWeb
> >
> > Should give you an idea. There is also an embedded Swing browser but you
> > might like to avoid that :)
> >
> > PLEASE shout if you need any help. I am awhere that the release is a bit
> > rushed, if not premature. I will be more than happy to answer any
> > problems.
> >
> > Troy, I'm also ahwere that I don't want to lower the s/n ratio for Sword
> > so I will be entirely happy if you want to direct traffic for this
> > elsewhere. I'll leave that up to you.
> >
> > The download has finished now ...
> >
> > With love in Jesus
> > Joe.