Awesome!! On Jan 19, 2014, at 2:57 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.helli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There has been much discussion of late about accessing Sword through > JavaScript, producing JavaScript bindings for Sword, or porting Sword into > JavaScript. JS provides a unique challenge because it is so heavily dominated > by browser-side work and most server-side solutions are either very immature > or focused heavily on pure JS work that producing Sword bindings ranges from > impossible (in the browser) to questionable (browser plugins) to an > unexplored unknown (server-side plugins). This almost unique situation has > led most of us to more or less ignore it. > > Multiple efforts have been made to allow JavaScript implementations to > directly read a Sword module file format, but this can be fraught with > difficulty. One commonality between every JavaScript environment I've ever > worked with is its ability to handle JSON-formatted data. To that end, I have > put together a demo application based on JSword and Undertow (the core > library that forms the basis of the renamed JBoss-now-WildFly) that shows how > simple it is to expose basic module text to the reader in JSON-formatted > text. Anyone is free to see the source at > https://github.com/greg-hellings/jsword-json > > The README file has basic build and run directions. I have a sample of it up > and running at http://www.thehellings.com:10001/ and > ws://www.thehellings.com:10002/ but I have only installed a few simple > modules that are exposed in the public domain to avoid licensing problems. > The method I use for listing out the contents of the module itself don't work > very well with General Books, which is due to my desire to keep the source as > simple as possible, which requires a break from how JSword expects GenBook > contents to be accessed. This is not insurmountable but my intention was not > for this first cut to be production-worthy but only for it to serve as a > demonstration of how easy interfacing between Sword and JavaScript could be > if one were to write a simple web service backend. > > Opinions, corrections, questions, pull requests, and general insults about my > approach are welcomed. > > --Greg > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
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