   rightthe sword project is the crosswire bible society's free bible software project. its purpose is to create cross-platform open source toolsâcovered by the gnu general public licenseâthat allow programmers and bible societies to write new bible software more quickly and easily. ==overview== the core of the sword project is a cross-platform library written in c++, providing access, search functions and other utilities to a growing collection of over 200 texts in over 50 languages. any software based on their api can use this collection. jsword is a separate implementation, written in java, which reproduces most of the api features of the c++ api and supports most sword data content. the project is one of the primary implementers of and contributors to the open scripture information standard (osis), a standardized xml language for the encoding of scripture. the software is also capable of utilizing certain resources encoded in using the text encoding initiative (tei) format and maintains deprecated support for theological markup language (thml) and general bible format (gbf). ==bible study front end applications==  a variety of front ends based on the sword project are available: ===and bible=== and bible, based on jsword, is an android application. ===alkitab bible study=== alkitab bible study, based on jsword, is a multiplatform application with binaries available for windows, linux, and os x. it has been described as "an improved windows front-end for jsword". ===the bible tool=== the bible tool is a web front end to sword. one instance of the tool is hosted at crosswire's own site. ===bibledesktop=== bibledesktop is built on jsword featuring binaries for windows (98se and later), os x, and linux (and other unix-like oses). ===bibletime=== bibletime is a c++ sword front end using the qt gui toolkit, with binaries for 
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