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jVLT - a vocabulary learning tool

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Latest stable release:
Download jVLT-1.0.6 binary
Download jVLT-1.0.6 binary for JAVA 1.4.X
Download jVLT-1.0.6 source

Installation instructions

After you downloaded jvlt-XYZ.jar, on most operating systems you will only have to double-click on the file.
In order to run jVLT, you need to have JAVA installed. It is recommended to use version 1.5 (or higher) of the java runtime environment. It also possible to run jVLT with version 1.4.x of the JRE. In this case, you have to download jvlt-XYZ.j14.jar instead of jvlt-XYZ.jar.
If you want to compile jVLT, extract its source archive, change into the main directory and call "ant dist". Afterwards, you can find the executable jar file in the subdirectory "dist". It is called "jVLT-DATE.jar", where DATE stands for the current date. Note that this requires apache ant to be installed.

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File format documentation

jVLT uses two XML files - dict.xml and stats.xml - to store the vocabulary data. Those two files are then put into a single zip file with the suffix ".jvlt". Below, you find a sample for dict.xml and stats.xml, respectively, and two DTDs describing their syntax.

dict.xml - vocabulary data
stats.xml - training data
dict.dtd - DTD for dict.xml
stats.dtd - DTD for stats.xml