mobidict - a translating dictionary for j2me

Introduction

mobidict is a translating dictionary for j2me. A tool is provided for building Palm OS .pdb dictionaries for the MIDP for Palm OS j2me implementation, from files in the TEI format.

Download mobidict

mobidict.prc (12 Kb) (May 15 2002) (This is for Palm OS ; here are the tools, the sources and the (.jad, .jar) pair for other MIDP devices.)

How to build dictionaries from files in the TEI format

First, install a j2ee XML implementation, for example Xerces.

Then download some TEI files from freedict.

Remove the DOCTYPE which doesn't please the parser (I don't know why).

Edit tei2pdb.sh to make sure the CLASSPATH to Xerces is ok.

Make tei2pdb.sh executable:
  chmod +x tei2pdb.sh

Change dir to where the TEI files are located and type:
  [path to mobidict/tools]/tei2pdb.sh file.tei

This will create a file-VM00.pdb that you will be able to load into the device.

Contact

If you have any questions, bug reports or comments regarding mobidict, please send e-mail to raphael.jolly@free.fr.

Copyright

    Copyright (C) 2002  Raphael Jolly

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

last updated on Mon May 20 2002