[Biojava-l] BioJava 1.5 versus BioJava 2

[Mark Schreiber]

Hi -

BioJava2 is more of a concept than an actual usable API. I'm not sure
if the development of this project is even active right now.

BioJava 1.5 will be the next generation of biojava. It doesn't use
features of JDK1.5 like generics, foreach, and unboxing but later
versions will. However, this doesn't mean you can't use them with the
API. For example there is no reason why you cannot make a
List<Sequence> and iterate over it with a foreach statement. It's just
that BioJava 1.5 doesn't do that internally yet.

- Mark

On 3/17/07, Eric Gibert <ericgibert at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Dear all,
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> I am using BioJava 1.4 and I think to upgrade to 1.5. But I would like to
> benefit of the new Java language improvement (<structure> and "foreach a la
> Java"). My understanding is that Biojava 1.5 uses the List type (with the
> Iterator). On the other hand, I read about another project called Biojava 2
> which takes the approach to implement <Sequence> and other features of Java
> 5.0.
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> But it looks like Biojava 2 is still new and does not offer the rich
> environment of Biojava 1.x
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> Any comments?
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> Eric Gibert
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