[Biojava-dev] biojava-acedb status

[Kalle Näslund]

Thomas Down wrote:

>Once upon a time, Rob Brooksbank wrote:
>  
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>>I am trying to get hold of a biojava-acedb.jar file so that I can mount
>>it from the NetBeans IDE. I have downloaded the tarball from the cvs and
>>tried unsuccesfully to build it. I see from a previous thread that
>>others have had the same problem and no resolution for it has been
>>reported to the list.
>>
>>What is the status of biojava-acedb? It is not included in the current
>>release of biojava, has it been superceded by something else?  
>>    
>>
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>I'm afraid biojava-acedb is currently orphanware -- I'm not
>aware of anyone who's currently using it.  The compile errors
>are due to some changes in the BioJava core APIs.
>
>[It was originally developed by Matthew Pocock and myself, mainly
>for use with human genome data.  That's now available in Ensembl
>format, though, so I always use that now].
>
>It shouldn't be a major job to get the package working.  It's
>a job that's probably best handled by someone who's actively
>working with Acedb.
>
>Let me know if you need any help with the code.  I'm not familiar
>with Netbeans, though -- can anyone else help here?
>
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>
I use netbeans, normaly just the basic features it provides ( editor, 
debugger and so on )
and there are no problems to write biojava applications with netbeans. 
So if there are any
netbeans specific problems, all i can offer is to share my limited 
experience, hopefully it
will be enough.

Kalle