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<body><div style="font-family:Arial;">I don't know - the wiki pages for OBF all talk about "toolkit"s for the various languages.<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">For me - toolkit > library > framework<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">-brian</div>
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<div>From: Spencer Bliven <<a href="mailto:spencer.bliven@gmail.com">spencer.bliven@gmail.com</a>><br></div>
<div>To: "<a href="mailto:Biojava-l@lists.open-bio.org">Biojava-l@lists.open-bio.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:biojava-l@mailman.open-bio.org">biojava-l@mailman.open-bio.org</a>><br></div>
<div>Subject: [Biojava-l] Poll: is biojava a framework or library?<br></div>
<div>Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 21:03:28 +0100<br></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">We've previously referred to BioJava pretty consistently as a framework (e.g. the last paper was "BioJava: an open-source framework for bioinformatics in 2012"). However, in the current world of Angular and Rails, "framework" has required a more specific meaning relating to inversion of control and clear separation between the "frozen" framework code and the "hot" user-extensible part.<br></div>
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<div>On the other hand, a "library" sounds like a collection of procedures for a single task, and BioJava has a lot of breadth. We have lots of modules doing very different bioinformatics tasks, and user code would typically only include part of BioJava. We also have a few user interfaces and command line tools included, although I consider these more like example code then proper distributables.<br></div>
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<div>What do you think? Should we refer to BioJava as a 'library' in the future, or should we continue to use "framework" on the website and in publications?<br></div>
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<div>-Spencer<br></div>
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<div>Links:<br></div>
<div><ul><li><a href="https://www.programcreek.com/2011/09/what-is-the-difference-between-a-java-library-and-a-framework/">https://www.programcreek.com/2011/09/what-is-the-difference-between-a-java-library-and-a-framework/</a><br></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_framework">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_framework</a><br></li></ul></div>
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