STEPBible

STEPBible is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation registered in the UK #1193950 run by Bible scholars and computer enthusiasts, as well as members who help to decide priorities.

STEP is a free, high-quality, portable web-based, online and offline Bible study tool comprising many versions across hundreds of languages, with many different viewing options to ease personal study.

Technical brief

Step code is developed mainly in Java for the server side, and HTML and JavaScript for the Browser side.<br> The following tools, technologies, frameworks and libraries are used by the project:<br> Development Environment:<br>

• Intellij Idea (Community Edition - free)

Frontend:<br>

• HTML 5
• Javascript
• JQuery
• JQuery UI
• Selenium (for testing)

Backend:

• Apache Tomcat® (Web Server)
• Apache Tomcat® Embedded (for STEP Desktop)
• Apache Lucene™ (for indexing and search)
• Google Guice (for dependency injection)
• jackson codehaus (for processing JSON)
• junit (for uint test)
• mockito (for testing)
• jasypt (for encryption)
• yammer metrics (for application metrics)
• SLF4J (for logging)

Documentation

Developer's Guide<br><br> STEP Code Documentation

• step.core code documentation
• step.tools code documentation

Licences