Package dict.prepare

Package building the command line utility for desktop computers for preparing dictionary files in order to use them on JavaME driven devices.

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Description

Interface Summary

IDictParserHandler

Used for receiving index entries from the dictionary parser.

Class Summary

DictImport	Builds files and a directory structure suitable for using a dictionary in a midlet.
DictParser	Dict.cc dictionary file parser.
ParserBase	Base class for classes implementing parsing of diverse dictionary files.
Prepare	Main class for the index preparation program.
ThesParser	Thesaurus file parser.
UDDLParser	UDDL dictionary file parser.

Package dict.prepare Description

Package building the command line utility for desktop computers for preparing dictionary files in order to use them on JavaME driven devices.

Due to many JavaME restrictions especially that regarding access rights to file systems for JavaME midlets, the whole dictionary: the application and the data files are collected in one single jar file. The necessary data files, ie. the dictionary, index and configuration files are resources of the midlet package. This allows the midlet to access the necessary files without running in trusted environments (signing = many $). Such dictionary, index, configuration files and the directory structure for the midlets jar file must be prepared on a desktop PC using a special program dict.prepare.Prepare implented in this package. The program is usually automatically called in the ant build script build.xml in the target dicts-me but you may also call it from the command line using:

java -jar ${mdlname}prep.jar dict.txt TYPE directory

where:

• ${mdlname}prep.jar, eg. deenprep.jar is the name of the jar file containing the program
• dict.txt is the name of the source dictionary file, as downloaded from http://dict.cc, http://www.dicts.info, http://www.openthesaurus.de or http://synonimy.ux.pl
• TYPE is presently one of DICTCC, UDDL or THES
• directory is the resulting directory, where the whole directory structure for the dictionarys resource files is created

The ant build script uses the utility in order to prepare a directory structure in the directory preverified, the it compiles the classes from the packages dict.me and dict.common into the same directory and builds a jar file for JavaME from the prepared files and classes in this directory.

See the description of the class dict.prepare.Prepare for more details on the command line program. See dict.prepare.DictImport for more details about the format of the files and the directory structure created for the JavaME dictionary.