[Biojava-l] Maintaining biojava on several machines

[Emig, Robin]

	Due to the development versions changing fairly rapidly I would
suggest that for wide spread use of biojava, use only the snapshots. These
come out once every ??? 6 months or so and are stable. This reduces the work
load of updating all the machines all the time. But if you want to use the
latest, greatest version I would suggest setting up an NFS share on one of
your unix machines and having all other unix machines mount it somewhere and
include that location in their classpath (in profile.d or csh.cshrc (or
other shell) for system wide). You can do the same with windows using UNC
path (ie \\biojavaserver\biojava\biojava.jar). However, in most cases you
really dont need to do that, just use the snapshot and update the machine
every 6 months.
	In our case we are using http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/
javawebstart to essentially push new versions of our biojava apps down to
client machines. We simply include all of biojava in the application jar.
That way if we update biojava, or our application it is just gets downloaded
the next time the user starts the program. You can however, using webstart
create separate jars, but you may run into the situation where biojava or
your app stop working together if you are using the "in development" cvs
snapshots.
-Robin

-----Original Message-----
From: biojava-l-admin@biojava.org [mailto:biojava-l-admin@biojava.org]On
Behalf Of Schreiber, Mark
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 7:53 PM
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Subject: [Biojava-l] Maintaining biojava on several machines


Hi,

What are peoples experiences with maintaining biojava on several machines??
I currently try and keep updated versions on just two machines (both
windows). But in the near future our group may need to install biojava on
quite a few Unix/Linux machines. Due to the rapidly (almost daily) changing
nature of biojava is it possible (or advisable) to keep all machines up to
date with CVS or would it be better to download the occasional snapshots
that come out?

Also in a networked system can biojava be accessed from just one server by
maybe RMI (I'm very much out of my depth here but suggestions are welcome).

Thanks

Mark
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