The SWORD Project

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For the 1960s toy and science fiction stories, produced by Century 21 Productions, see Project SWORD.

The SWORD Project is the CrossWire Bible Society's free Bible software project. Its purpose is to create cross-platform open source tools—covered by the GNU General Public License—that allow programmers and Bible societies to write new Bible software more quickly and easily.

At the core of the project is a cross platform library written in C++, providing access, search functions and other utilities to a growing collection of over 200 texts in over 50 languages[1]. Any software based on their API can use this collection.

The project is one of the primary implementers of and contributors to the OSIS, a standardised XML language for the encoding of scripture. The software is also capable of utilizing certain resources encoded in using the TEI format and maintains deprecated support for ThML and GBF.

Frontends are available currently for Windows(The SWORD Project for Windows), various Unixes (GnomeSword[2] and BibleTime), including all mainline Linux distributions and FreeBSD, Mac OS X (MacSword), WinCE (SwordReader), Internet Tablet OS (Rapier), as CGI utility (diatheke) and others.

Beyond that there are a number of other front ends[3][4][5][6] making use of the library.

A separate implementation in Java exists in JSword, with its own cross-platform GUI, BibleDesktop.[7]

Despite the similarity in name, the e-Sword Bible software program is not a product of The SWORD Project, nor is it built upon The SWORD Project API.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Al Fasoldt (2004-04-11). Religion Meets Computer Revolution. The Post-Standard (Syracuse, New York). Retrieved on 2008-03-17.
  2. ^ David A. Utter (2006-09-13). Linux: The Flash and the Fish. WebProNews. Retrieved on 2008-03-17.
  3. ^ [1] BPBible
  4. ^ [2] Xsword
  5. ^ [3] wxSword
  6. ^ [4] PySword
  7. ^ Bible Desktop 1.0 Released. Linux News (2006-01-10). Retrieved on 2008-03-17.

[edit] See also

  • e-Sword – a Bible software package for Microsoft Windows and Pocket PC
  • Go Bible – a free Bible viewer for the Java ME platform

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