[Biojava-l] library for running blast and formatdb

[Brian Gilman]

On 1/14/03 4:56 AM, "Thomas Down" <td2@sanger.ac.uk> wrote:
Hey Guys,

    This has been written a million times before! It exists as a very nice
package on the jakarta apache web site in the "commons" called Digester.
Take a look.

                                Best,

                                    -B

> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 09:40:02AM +1300, Schreiber, Mark wrote:
>> I notice there is a Object call AppBeanRunner that appears to make an
>> object from an XML file then instantiate it. Is it intended for the type
>> of activity below or something else?
> 
> Possibly.  The AppBean stuff is very simple, rather generic:
> 
>  <bean jclass="org.example.Foo">
>    <string name="hello" value="Boo!" />
>    <boolean name="isTesting" value="true" />
>    <bean name="bar" jclass="org.example.Bar">
>      <int name="prop1" value="42" />
>      <set name="messages">
>        <string value="Hello" />
>        <string value="Goodbye" />
>      </set>
>    </bean>
>  </bean>
> 
> It's something I wrote a *long* time ago, and use as a quick'n'dirty
> way of configuring some of my applications.  The two you might have
> come across are the Eponine trainer and Dazzle DAS server.  As I say,
> it's quite old, and I'm not that happy about the format (although
> I've not seen anything similar which handles collections so nicely).
> 
> I don't think I'd really advise it for new projects unless you either
> like it, or need something that works very quickly.  SOAP-ENC probably
> makes more sense these days.
> 
>   Thomas.
> 
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