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A few days ago I got an email of the blue from Daniel Naber ( http://www.danielnaber.de ) who will be giving a talk at a OO.o convention about OO's linguistic capabilities. He asked if the grammar checking facility we have in AbiWord can give suggestions for incorrect grammar as well as marking incorrect regions.
Unfortunately link-grammar, which we use for our grammar checker, does not have this capability and told him that. He then told me about his project, LanguageTool. LanguageTool is written in java, can currently grammar check in English and German and provides natural language descriptions of suspected grammatical mistakes.
I asked him if he'd tried gjc and if he knew how provide a C/C interface to his code. If we can work this out, the AbiWord side of things is very straight forward. We only have to subclass one existing piece of code in a plugin and wrap his code with a two method API. It's all in a plugin so it won't disturb the rest of our codebase.
If we can work out how to use gcj and do the C/C interface we'll can test out his grammar checker in AbiWord in less than one week of real time.
Unfortunately neither he nor I know how to make a gcj <-> C/C bridge. So if you do, let us know and we'll Rock On with Free SoftwareTM :-)
Anonymous
September 20 2005, 03:31:48 UTC 6 years ago
i believe some people have done that with swig, but i am sure te gcjers know it best.
cheers,
dalibor topic
Anonymous
September 20 2005, 03:52:58 UTC 6 years ago
Anonymous
September 20 2005, 05:44:12 UTC 6 years ago
Example in Pdftk
I sent e-mail, but maybe strangers should know too...There's a compact example of how to make C++ call a Java
library in the sources for project Pdftk.
Anonymous
September 20 2005, 07:34:36 UTC 6 years ago
CNI
Maybe CNI is the answer. Apparently, the gcjh tool generates stubs (header files) from java classes.A look into the gcj website reveals:
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcj/Invoki
Never seen this before, but I hope it helps...
September 20 2005, 14:23:32 UTC 6 years ago
Mikey
September 21 2005, 06:28:24 UTC 6 years ago
Not to worry...
gcj works fine on win32 and OSX so we'd keep our cross platform capabilities.Cheers
Martin
Anonymous
September 20 2005, 14:40:26 UTC 6 years ago
GCJ bridge
GCJ supports both JNI (the "Java Native Interface" standard for interfacing with C libraries) and the significantly more reasonably "CNI". In the GCC manual, there is a page that talks about CNI:http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.0.1/g
I suspect that since you'll be wanting to access Java code from C++, you'll likely want to read the "Invocation" chapter. I'm not sure if this can be accomplished using the standard JNI interface, or if that is only intended for accessing platform libraries from Java and not the other way around.
September 21 2005, 06:27:07 UTC 6 years ago
Thanks everyone!
Thanks to everyone who responded. We now have enough clues to work out how to do the gcj <-> C/C++ bridge.I really appreciate the help. It's what makes free software such a powerful and fun activity.
Cheers
Martin
Anonymous
September 21 2005, 16:22:44 UTC 6 years ago
http://svn.osafoundation.org/pylucene/tr
http://pylucene.osafoundation.org/
Anonymous
September 19 2008, 16:52:07 UTC 3 years ago
Running AbiWord on NT platform via PHP
Hi,When running AbiWord from PHP on NT server (in my case Server 2003), don't forget to copy the AbiSuite folder from your personal profile folder (\documents and settings\\AbiSuite to the Default User folder under \documents and settings\Default User)
If you don't do this, AbiWord will not output anything.
When you install AbiWord on your server, AbiWord places that profile info under the ID you used to install it. That ID is the one referred to above.
There's probably a more elegant way to make this run, but that's what I found and I hope it helps somebody (I spent many many hours trying to figure this out ... why AbiWord would run in cmd but not when called PHP's exec functions (such as system, exect, shell_exec etc..).