http://www.kosherjava.com A weblog about Zmanim, Kosher Coffee (Kosher Java) and other odds & ends Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:28:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.kosherjava.com/2011/03/23/zmanim-api-in-svn/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=zmanim-api-in-svn http://www.kosherjava.com/2011/03/23/zmanim-api-in-svn/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2011 03:19:52 +0000 KosherJava http://www.kosherjava.com/?p=834 Thanks to Jay Gindin, the Zmanim API source code is now in a publicly available SVN server. The Google Code project can be found at code.google.com/p/kosherjava. This will have a number of benefits to the project. It will more easily allow users to find the code, ensure that they have the latest code, track changes, and allow reverting to prior versions in case an issue arises with newly checked in code. It will also allow me to stop the manual backups (part of the projects Ant build script) done as part of every development build. The repository has the new hebrewcalendar package mentioned in the recently posted FAQ: How do I Calculate the Jewish/Hebrew Date for …?. This new code is under heavy revision, and there will be changes that will likely break code using the current alpha version. The pace of changes to the interface will likely remain stable once the first beta version is released (probably after Pesach). The next step will be to touch base with various people who have copies of the API in their own SVN to either update or link to this official project SVN server.]]> http://www.kosherjava.com/2011/03/23/zmanim-api-in-svn/feed/ 0 http://www.kosherjava.com/2010/05/30/zmanim-api-1-2-1-released/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=zmanim-api-1-2-1-released http://www.kosherjava.com/2010/05/30/zmanim-api-1-2-1-released/#comments Mon, 31 May 2010 02:36:11 +0000 KosherJava http://www.kosherjava.com/?p=657 The Zmanim API 1.2.1 was released today. Changed in this release were the addition of a few very early Tzais zmanim, and the removal of references to the GregorianCalendar in favor of the base Calendar class to ease Noah Blumenthal’s use of the Zmanim API in a zmanim application for the BlackBerry. This change has no impact on functionality as tested using Yitzchok’s new JUnit tests. Additionally, the JavaDoc Zmanim API documentation was modified to clearly indicate that zmanim can return nulls. A followup post will have details on this. The main download is the Zmanim 1.2.1 release zip file that includes source files and JavaDoc documentation. Also available for download (included in the above zip file) is the main zmanim-1.2.1.jar and the zmanimAstronomical-1.2.1.jar that only includes the AstronomicalCalendar. The removal of the GregorianCalendar was in this class. Additional detail on the downloads can be seen on the Zmanim Download page]]> http://www.kosherjava.com/2010/05/30/zmanim-api-1-2-1-released/feed/ 0 http://www.kosherjava.com/2010/01/24/zmanim-api-1-2-released/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=zmanim-api-1-2-released http://www.kosherjava.com/2010/01/24/zmanim-api-1-2-released/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:07:29 +0000 KosherJava http://www.kosherjava.com/?p=409 The Zmanim API 1.2 was released today. The only change in this release is the removal of elevation as a factor in the calculation of all zmanim besides sunrise and sunset. Updated JavaDocs now reflect these changes. Please see the Elevation Now Only Impacts Sunrise and Sunset Calculations in the Zmanim API post for additional information. I would like to thank the various people who contacted me on the subject. The main download is the Zmanim 1.2 release zip file that includes source files and JavaDoc documentation. Also available for download (included in the above zip file) is the main zmanim-1.2.jar. The zmanimAstronomical-1.1.jar that only includes the AstronomicalCalendar was not impacted by this change, but the version has been updated to zmanimAstronomical-1.2.jar for consistency. Additional detail on the downloads can be seen on the Zmanim Download page]]> http://www.kosherjava.com/2010/01/24/zmanim-api-1-2-released/feed/ 0 http://www.kosherjava.com/2009/03/27/zmanim-api-11-released/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=zmanim-api-11-released http://www.kosherjava.com/2009/03/27/zmanim-api-11-released/#comments Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:49:02 +0000 KosherJava http://www.kosherjava.com/?p=137 The Zmanim API 1.1 was released early this morning. Information about what changed in this release can be seen in previous posts about various beta and patch releases. A last minute change involved the removal of the misheyakir calculations commonly used by the Syrian community. The removal was due to the various different minhagim used, and Chacham Yosef Harari-Raful not endorsing any one, or including any, in his calendar. The API is flexible enough to be used for any calculation wanted by the various Syrian shuls even without “native” support for a built in “Ateret Torah” misheyakir. Some missing JavaDocs were also added. I would like to again thank Rabbi Rachamim Ashkenazi the publisher of a zmanim calendar for the Syrian Community, and Victor Grazi for his input, testing and technical expertise used for adding the new “Ateret Torah” zmanim. The main download is the Zmanim 1.1 release zip file that includes source files and JavaDoc documentation. Also available for download (included in the above zip file) is the main zmanim-1.1.jar and the new zmanimAstronomical-1.1.jar that only includes the AstronomicalCalendar and supporting classes. Additional detail on the downloads can be seen on the Zmanim Download page]]> http://www.kosherjava.com/2009/03/27/zmanim-api-11-released/feed/ 0