[Biojava-dev] BioJava 3 Proposal

[george waldon]

Would-it be helpful to implement SPI for manipulating sequence formats? 

For example, we could have:

RichSequenceFormat fasta = Lookup.getDefault().lookup(FastaFormat.class);

This would allow anyone to implement their own version of sequence format. The lookup would return the internal implementation by default or an external one is any is found.

- George


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> From: biojava-dev-bounces at lists.open-bio.org [mailto:biojava-dev-
> bounces at lists.open-bio.org] On Behalf Of Mark Schreiber
> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 4:59 AM
> To: Richard Holland
> Cc: biojava-dev at biojava.org
> Subject: Re: [Biojava-dev] BioJava 3 Proposal
> 
> Hi -
> 
> There was some talk of making biojava3 aware of plugins and service
> provider interfaces (SPI). It is therefore timely that Sun have
> released an article on how this can easily be achieved now that the
> ServiceLoader API has been exposed in JSE6
> 
> http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/javase/extensible/
> 
> - Mark
> 
> On 10/1/07, Richard Holland <holland at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
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> > I see it's all gone a bit quiet this last week or two!
> >
> > Here is the current proposal as it stands:
> >
> > http://biojava.org/wiki/BioJava3_Proposal
> >
> > (There's also quite a bit of discussion on the topic on the associated
> > 'discussion' page).
> >
> > Please make comments directly to the wiki page. The more comments we
> > get, the more likely it is we will proceed with a development plan which
> > suits the majority of our users.
> >
> > I plan to make a summary of this page public to biojava-l sometime in
> > November. This summary page would then be put through the same feedback
> > and discussion process, and would be open for anyone to comment
> > (including, most importantly, our users). The final plan would be based
> > on the outcome of these public discussions.
> >
> > cheers,
> > Richard
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