[Biojava-dev] Hi.. Calling Java from Perl

[Andy Yates]

Indeed I would agree with Mark here and go for web services as the
desired solution. JAX-WS & CXF are both popular frameworks for doing Web
Services and as far as I remember Spring had some very nice helper
classes for quickly exposing any Java class as a web service. Then there
are other remoting protocols such as Hessian, Burlap, Protocol Buffers
or Thrift all of which are good in their own ways.

However Web Services should be the quickest (re implementation) way to
communicate with a persistent Java process.

Personally I would stay away from Java::Inline.

Andy

Mark Schreiber wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> You could try and use something like CORBA but that would be quite ugly.
> 
> A nicer alternative would be to put the BioJava functionality in a web
> service and send sequences as FASTA or some custom format??
> 
> I think WS is considered the best way for Java and .NET to talk so probably
> it is for Perl too.
> 
> - Mark
> 
> On 29 Jul 2009, 6:24 AM, "Abhishek Pratap" <abhishek.vit at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Andy
> 
> Thanks for a quick reply.  I think SHELLING out will be too process
> intensive as we expect thousands of call to same Java method. I also
> read about the Perl modules Java::Inline. Is that any good ?
> 
> And to answer your second question I am basically using a inhouse
> method which in turns used a lot of BioJava classes for DNA
> manipulation.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Abhi
> 
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Andy Yates<ayates at ebi.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi
> Abhi, > > Well to answer ...
>