![]() JBidwatcher, one of the best open source eBay utilities, has just released a major update. JBidwatcher is the work of Morgan Schweers, who has overseen its development for close to eight years. It hasn’t always been easy, though - JBidwatcher 0.9 was released in 2003, but 1.0 didn’t come until 2006. Since that time, only a few minor updates came down the pipe, usually to fix breakages when eBay changed its formatting or URI scheme. The 1.0.x series continues to function correctly for most auctions today, but is showing its age. Newer eBay features and spin-off sites (such as the vehicle-only eBay Motors) are not supported, and the interface is inflexible, particularly for Linux users. Schweers decided to refactor the code, add new features, refresh the look and feel, and store auction information in a database instead of flat files. He started releasing 2.0 betas to the public in April. The most recent is 2.0 beta 3, unleashed on May 1.Īs the name implies, JBidwatcher is a Java app, and is tested regularly on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. OS-appropriate installers are available for the proprietary OSes Linux users need only to grab the. jar file and save it to any location on their system. The new version of JBidwatcher requires Java 1.5 or newer. The instructions say you should use the Sun Java Runtime Environment, although I have used JBidwatcher 1.0.x with other JREs without major trouble on Linux. The Java 1.5 requirement limits the Mac version of JBidwatcher to 10.4 and later only. If you have already been using JBidwatcher 1.0.x, you’ll have a. jbidwatcher directory that contains cached data concerning all of the auctions you are watching (including thumbnail images), your login credential, and error logs. jbidwatcher directory before you launch the new release. On a command line, type cp -R ~/.jbidwatcher ~/.jbidwatcher.backup. Here I stumbled across a system configuration problem - although I knew I had Sun Java 1.6 installed, the java command would not launch JBidwatcher, because it was symlinked to a different JRE.
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