[jsword-devel] feather request: book downloading and index generating api

[David]

Eclipse RCP platform has its own threading api. Use can choose the job run
on backgroud or foreground. I maybe need to double check why the process
failed. (I believe it is because of threading)
For book installation, I added two mirror methods to do downloading and
copying.  It works fine. The only issue is the api and package keep changing
and I have to compare every time there is a new release and merge the code.

For indexing, I have not made it to work correctly.  I will study the code
next week. The basic idea is kick off a background job and call jsword api
to generate index. No thread for indexing itself is needed.

For Web sword, the book installation is on server side. Never mind.  It will
not be used for end users. I put it on hold because I have several othe
plugins need to be done soon.

Zhaojun

On 12/8/06, DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> David wrote:
> > Hi, DM and fellow developers,
> >
> > I am developing web sword(90% done, pure j2ee implementation, will
> > help web hosting) and sword on eclipse RCP.  Issues were raised up
> > when I try to integrate install book and generate indices. The code
> > now has job api build in and also has the reporter to communicate with
> > user UI.
> >
> > In order to accelerate the acceptance of jword library,  the api for
> > downloading books and api for index processing need to seperated from
> > Job api.
> I'm not sure I understand the problem.
>
> The index api (org.crosswire.jsword.index) is independent of the Job and
> Reporter apis. The Lucene implementation is not.
> Likewise for the install api (org.crosswire.jsword.index) and the sword
> implementation.
>
> Both the Job api and the Reporter api are listener based. If there is no
> listener for Job events or Reporter events, then those are not heard.
> Any listener of your choosing can be provided or not provided. It is up
> to you.
>
> The purpose of the Job and Reporter apis is to provide asynchronous
> communication of a potentially background task thread. For example, you
> will notice in BibleDesktop that you can download and/or index more than
> one Book at a time. Each download and index is on its own thread and it
> communicates back to BibleDesktop asynchronously of its progress or any
> problems that are encountered.
>
> In a web environment asynchronous communication of long-lived threads on
> the server may prove to be a challenge, but it should be possible.
>
>
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