[Biojava-l] Dazzle Servlet code

[Thomas Down]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:08:48PM -0400, Dickson, Mike wrote:
> I'd like inquire about the state of this code.  The ant build file looks
> like its ported from biojava-live and doesn't fully build the WebApps
> structure.  Is this an early work in progress or something that if far
> enough along that digging into to it makes sense.  I'm interested in
> exploring DAS as a mechanism for providing access to annotations and the
> dazzle stuff looks like a great place to start.

No, you need to do a bit of copying and jarring yourself to
build a useful webapp -- the buildfile just makes the
dazzle-server.jar library.

I need to write a tutorial on building a fully functional webapp --
it's been on my todo list for a while, but might hopefully actually
get done tonight.  I'll post you a copy once it is.

Dazzle is still a work in progress, but it does have quite a nice
architecture of pluggable data source objects (the exact interface
for these might still change a bit, but hopefully the idea won't),
so you can quite easily get it sitting on top of your database.

Incidentally, there's going to be a workshop on DAS at the BioJava
bootcamp.  We're going to start off using the DAS client code
in BioJava, but hopefully at the end of the afternoon everyone will
get the chance to write a simple data source plugin for Dazzle.

Anyway, I'll try to get you something helpful in the next day or
two,

   Thomas.