Correct errors and omissions in the JAD files made using Go Bible Creator.

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Curently the JAD files generated by GoBibleCreator v2.4.0 contain some errors 
and omit some required or recommended items. The following website can help us 
move towards a solution.

http://handylearn-projects.de/jadinfo.html

Deploying midlets on a server for OTA download can be quite complex. You need 
the software archive itself, but also a java application descriptor, or "jad" 
file. The jad-file contains information about the archive. The mobile phone 
downloads the jad-file first. It can then make some basic checks before 
downloading the bigger Jar-file.

We have collected information about frequently made errors. 

This site includes a JAD Online Checker, which checks a lot of common errors of 
your jad file.

http://jadcheck.appspot.com/check 

Although few Go Bible applications are posted on WAP servers, it is observed 
that JAD files made using Go Bible Creator often have incorrect values for this 
JAD item:

MIDlet-Jar-URL:

The URL from which the mobile phone can download the jar-archive.
This must be an absolute path including the domain name.
So if you put the jar file on another server, you need to change this value in 
the jad file.

Also to note, Go Bible Creator does not generate these two JAD items:

MicroEdition-Configuration:
MIDlet-Description:

And finally, for the JAD item
MIDlet-Icon:
The icon path should start with a '/'. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by DFH...@gmail.com on 8 Oct 2010 at 3:48

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Thanks to Miodrag Rechesan for reporting this to me, and for the heads-up about 
the Java Application Descriptor Help Box website. 

Original comment by DFH...@gmail.com on 8 Oct 2010 at 3:50

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MIDlet-Description: is interesting.

According to http://mpowerplayer.com/midlet_properties this is soemthing that 
mplayer.jar can display in the left hand pane.

We could do what SWORD module .conf files do, and have a brief Description, and 
a long About:

See http://crosswire.org/wiki/DevTools:conf_Files

Original comment by DFH...@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2011 at 6:35

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MicroEdition-Configuration: and MIDlet-Description:
are now both generated by the SymScroll branch of GoBibleCreator.

Also the icon path now starts with a '/'. 

The point about MIDlet-Jar-URL: is now covered by a separate new issue created 
today.
It relates to the collections property called Wap-site:.

Original comment by DFH...@gmail.com on 23 Sep 2011 at 9:49

• Changed state: Started

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Original comment by DFH...@gmail.com on 3 Jan 2013 at 10:36

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