Projects:Go Bible/Go Bible Creator

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Introduction

Go Bible Creator is a tool for converting Bible texts into Go Bible Java ME applications that can be loaded onto suitable mobile phones. Go Bible Creator is a Java application and requires Java SE (Runtime Environment).

Running Go Bible Creator

GoBibleCreator is run with the following command line from the directory containing the GoBibleCreator.jar file:

java -Xmx128m -jar GoBibleCreator.jar [PathToCollectionsFile]+

Required parameters

-xmx128m

Go Bible Creator loads the entire source text file[s] into memory and therefore requires the -Xmx128m parameter to increase the total memory available in Java to 128MB.

PathToCollectionsFile

Go Bible Creator can optionally process multiple files at once by specifying several PathToCollectionsFiles on the command line.

Optional parameters

There are two optional parameters:

-d

Specifies a source text directory where all Source-Text folders will be relative to. See below for more details on the Source-Text property in the "collections text" file.

-u

Update option: Using this option Go Bible Creator will update existing JAR files if they exist rather than create new ones. The source text will not be parsed nor will new Bible data be generated however everything else will be updated including the GoBibleCore, book names, UI properties, JAD file, manifest, etc. This option is useful if the source text hasn't changed and there hasn't been any change to the Go Bible Data Format, as it will be much quicker to process each collection. This option first makes a backup copy of the original JAD and JAR files.