This is very nice. We have a CORBA ORB service in sword/bindings that essentially does this, as well, providing a true OO class interface to the API, but yours is much lighter weight. Have you tested it for multithreading issues, e.g., does it share a common SWMgr for all instances (which is less memory intensive, but would be a potential hazard in an MT environment). I would love to see your code if you would be willing to donate it back to the project.
-Troy.
Mark Morley wrote:
Hi all,
First thing: I'd like to thank those behind the sword project. Great job folks!
Thought I'd tell y'all about my little project involving sword. I posted something about this in the forums, but they don't look like they get much traffic.
I only discovered the sword project a few days ago and it immediately got my gears spinning. The first thing I wanted to do was to rewrite my web bible software to use sword modules. But without native PHP support, it wasn't possible (SWIG is not an option in this case).
So last night I started writing a "sword daemon", a server process along the lines of SMTP, POP3, FTP, etc. It's a c++ program that runs on FreeBSD (and presumably most other UNIX/Linux systems). You connect to it and issue commands to query the sword system (list modules, get module details, search texts, etc)
With such a system, end clients do not need to link in the sword libraries, or even have local copies of any modules, etc. The result is that module storage and processing resources are offloaded to a central server, and lightweight sword clients, written in any language that can access TCP sockets, can run just about anywhere.
After an all night session, I have completed the initial version of 'swordd', and I also wrote a PHP client that accesses it, which I'm calling phpSword (which I'll change if that conflicts with anyone else).
You can take the client for a spin at this URL:
http://christian.net/sword.php
It's not too fancy yet, but already quite useful. I'll pretty it up later...
The source code for that is only 440 lines long, including style sheets and everything else. It gets all its data from 'swordd', which is running on the same server but could be running anywhere in the world. 'swordd' can handle any number of simultaneous connections (limited by the server resources of course).
Currently it allows you to view any number of texts and commentaries side by side. It also has pop-up Strong's lookups when using a module that supports them. I just added a basic interface to the lexicons & dictionaries as well, and I've got a long list of features to work on.
If there is interest in swordd, I'll be happy to contribute it to the project once I clean it up and document it a bit, and I'll put more effort into additional features. If not, that's ok too - it does what I need.
Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://christian.net/
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