Re: Poll: is biojava a framework or library?
Brian Repko <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Dec 2018 07:29:29 -0600
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============8103939512382450335== Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_----------=_154462136934204290" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --_----------=_154462136934204290 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" I don't know - the wiki pages for OBF all talk about "toolkit"s for the various languages. For me - toolkit > library > framework -brian ----- Original message ----- From: Spencer Bliven <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [Biojava-l] Poll: is biojava a framework or library? Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 21:03:28 +0100 We've previously referred to BioJava pretty consistently as a framework (e.g. the last paper was "BioJava: an open-source framework for bioinformatics in 2012"). However, in the current world of Angular and Rails, "framework" has required a more specific meaning relating to inversion of control and clear separation between the "frozen" framework code and the "hot" user-extensible part. On the other hand, a "library" sounds like a collection of procedures for a single task, and BioJava has a lot of breadth. We have lots of modules doing very different bioinformatics tasks, and user code would typically only include part of BioJava. We also have a few user interfaces and command line tools included, although I consider these more like example code then proper distributables. What do you think? Should we refer to BioJava as a 'library' in the future, or should we continue to use "framework" on the website and in publications? -Spencer Links: * https://www.programcreek.com/2011/09/what-is-the-difference-between-a-java-library-and-a-framework/ * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_framework _________________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [email protected] http://mailman.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l --_----------=_154462136934204290 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title></title> <style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style> </head> <body><div style="font-family:Arial;">I don't know - the wiki pages for OBF all talk about "toolkit"s for the various languages.<br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;">For me - toolkit > library > framework<br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;">-brian</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div>----- Original message -----<br></div> <div>From: Spencer Bliven <<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>><br></div> <div>To: "<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>" <<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>><br></div> <div>Subject: [Biojava-l] Poll: is biojava a framework or library?<br></div> <div>Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 21:03:28 +0100<br></div> <div><br></div> <div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">We've previously referred to BioJava pretty consistently as a framework (e.g. the last paper was "BioJava: an open-source framework for bioinformatics in 2012"). However, in the current world of Angular and Rails, "framework" has required a more specific meaning relating to inversion of control and clear separation between the "frozen" framework code and the "hot" user-extensible part.<br></div> <div dir="ltr"><br></div> <div>On the other hand, a "library" sounds like a collection of procedures for a single task, and BioJava has a lot of breadth. We have lots of modules doing very different bioinformatics tasks, and user code would typically only include part of BioJava. We also have a few user interfaces and command line tools included, although I consider these more like example code then proper distributables.<br></div> <div dir="ltr"><br></div> <div>What do you think? Should we refer to BioJava as a 'library' in the future, or should we continue to use "framework" on the website and in publications?<br></div> <div><br></div> <div>-Spencer<br></div> <div dir="ltr"><br></div> <div>Links:<br></div> <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.programcreek.com/2011/09/what-is-the-difference-between-a-java-library-and-a-framework/">https://www.programcreek.com/2011/09/what-is-the-difference-between-a-java-library-and-a-framework/</a><br></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_framework">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_framework</a><br></li></ul></div> <div><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div><u>_______________________________________________</u><br></div> <div>Biojava-l mailing list - <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><br></div> <div><a href="http://mailman.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l">http://mailman.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l</a><br></div> </body> </html> --_----------=_154462136934204290-- --===============8103939512382450335== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [email protected] http://mailman.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l --===============8103939512382450335==--