[Biojava-dev] registered alphabets

[Schreiber, Mark]

Hi -
 
I have added a registered(String alphaName) method to the AlphabetManager to allow you to test if an Alphabet had been registered with that name so you can avoid using a try catch block which can be ugly.
 
I noticed while doing this that it is perfectly possible to register and Alphabet that already exists. Eg I can register my own Alphabet as DNA. There is really no problem with that except that I will get odd results. There could be a problem if anyone ever tries to use biojava for distributed programming or webservices as there is no way to guarentee that the Alphabet requested from a remote server by name is really the Alphabet you wanted.
 
Am I being paranoid or do we need UIDs or LSIDs or some such thing to keep track of things?
 
- Mark

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