This folder gathers the following kinds of modules:

• Dictionary data
• Dictionary codecs
• Dictionary plugins
• Dictionary tools

These modules provide the dictionary entries.

They are named using the following scheme: croiseur-dictionary-<dictionary_or_format_name>-data.

Example: croiseur-dictionary-xml-data.

Only textual representation should be committed under version control. (If binary formats were to be supported in the future, they would have to be generated from a textual representation and generated binary would have to be excluded from version control.)

These modules are standalone libraries providing encoding/decoding functions for a peculiar dictionary format.

They are named using the following scheme: croiseur-dictionary-<dictionary_or_format_name>-codec.

Example: croiseur-dictionary-xml-codec.

These modules are libraries implementing the croiseur dictionary provider interfaces defined in croiseur-dictionary-spi and thus usable by the croiseur library.

They are named using the following scheme: croiseur-dictionary-provider-<dictionary_or_format_name>-plugin.

Example: croiseur-dictionary-xml-plugin.

Typically, these modules:

• Retrieve the dictionary data - location information may be hard-coded, read from configuration or system property like re.belv.croiseur.dictionary.path;
• Decode these data using codecs;
• Expose the decoded data via the croiseur-spi-dictionary interface.

These are tools to manipulate dictionaries.

They are grouped in the single croiseur-dictionary-tools module.