The JIRSA project

'jirsa' is a java application to ease the life of the Roleplaying Game Master, including:

• maps
• distance and travel times calculation
• weather
• ambient sounds
• weapons management

It's easily expandable, since it's build with several tabs.
Up till now it supports The Lord Of The Ring's RPG map and weather zones.

Get it:

• extract the content of jirsa_x.x.x_binary.tar.gz into a directory of your choice
• launch it:
  in unix-like environments, by running start_jirsa.sh script,
  in windows-like environments, by running start_jirsa.bat
  
• enjoy:-)

NOTE:
For version 0.0.3 you'll have to download jirsa_0.0.3_resources.tar.gz and
jirsa_0.0.3,jar from SourceForge files section, extract the former into a
a directory, copy jirsa_0.0.3.jar there, then run with:

java -jar jirsa_0.0.3.jar

ABOUT DATABASE:
If you like to use your own/preferred database engine, you'll need to:

• create needed tables, using sql scripts you can find under src/data/
• install database's jdbc driver, providing it could be accessed in CLASSPATH
• edit file etc/database.properties, filling in values needed to open the connection to your jdbc database

howto get it via svn (Subversion):

svn co https://jirsa.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/jirsa jirsa