[Biojava-l] URN/URI?

[Matthew Pocock]

Hi Mark,

This is my fault - back in the dark ages I was a bit hazey about UR[LIN]s and
their relationship to one another. The original intent was that sequences,
alphabets and other resources should be retrievable by some form of naming
scheim - URNs resolve to URIs which then resolve to objects. As things have
progressed, we have never followed this through to its logical condition.
Hopefuly, we may be able to hash out some naming-and-directory type stuff that
will superseed this legacy. For now, I think it is just an indeosynchracy that
we should live with. Perhaps the parameter in SimpleSequenceFactory could be
changed to be consistent with the (incorrectly named) sequence property.

Thoughts?

Matthew

Mark Schreiber wrote:

> Another newbie question,
>
> What is the URN parameter in SimpleSequence? Is it the same as the URI
> parameter in SimpleSequenceFactory? Is this documented elsewhere and if so
> can a link be added to the documentation??
>
> Mark
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