[Biojava-l] BioJava 1.5 versus BioJava 2

[Eric Gibert]

Thank you Richard and Mark for your answers.

So my next move is to install Hibernate and move to BJ1.5.

Eric

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From: Richard Holland [mailto:holland at ebi.ac.uk] 
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 5:13 PM
To: Eric Gibert
Cc: biojava-l at lists.open-bio.org
Subject: Re: [Biojava-l] BioJava 1.5 versus BioJava 2

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BJ2 is developed by a different group of developers than BJ1.5. As far
as I know, BJ2 never got further than a framework of ideas with one or
two proof-of-concept interface implementations. It is not currently
under active development that I am aware of.

BJ1.5 still uses Java 1.4 language features, as you correctly identify.
We have discussed moving to Java 1.5 for the BJ1.6 release and will make
a decision/announcement when the time comes. One of the reasons for the
delayed conversion is that up until recently many users' systems do not
have Java 1.5 environments available (older Macs, Compaq/DEC Alphas, etc.).

cheers,
Richard

Eric Gibert wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
>  
> 
> I am using BioJava 1.4 and I think to upgrade to 1.5. But I would like to
> benefit of the new Java language improvement (<structure> and "foreach a
la
> Java"). My understanding is that Biojava 1.5 uses the List type (with the
> Iterator). On the other hand, I read about another project called Biojava
2
> which takes the approach to implement <Sequence> and other features of
Java
> 5.0.
> 
>  
> 
> But it looks like Biojava 2 is still new and does not offer the rich
> environment of Biojava 1.x
> 
>  
> 
> Any comments?
> 
>  
> 
> Eric Gibert
> 
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