On Saturday 31 January 2004 12:01, Miguel Howard wrote: > > I am sure you know that Egon has done something like this in CDK/JCP. > > While I was aware of the RSS and plug-in work, I did not make the > association between the two ... Thanks!
I don't think Peter is refering to the RSS work... JCP also has a system called DADML: database access definition markup language... It uses XML files to download from databases, and is very well suited for downloading from databases like the PDB... See CDK's cdk/internet package, and cdk.sf.net/super.xml and cdk.sf.net/ database.xml It's in action for many years now, e.g. on www.woc.sci.kun.nl, and in JChemPaint... > > So it's important to keep consistency... > > Agreed. > > > I favour the use of symbolic addresses which are set in configuration > > files - e.g. in user.dir and which can be overruled specifically by the > > user if required. > > I have been thinking about this in the context of script development and > deployment of web applications. I hadn't yet thought about how this would > be configured for the application. > > But I agree with you. This should be part of the user preferences for the > application. > > > I would then favour a URL-like syntax wherever > > possible > > At first I thought about something like > > load pdb://1crn > > Which would route to the appropriate cgi on your chosen pdb mirror. > > But then I decided that it was probably 'illegal' and/or a bad idea to > just make up a new protocol called 'pdb' Don't think it is illegal... it's not an official protocol... we just happen to use the same syntax... Debian uses that for translation too: po://some-debian-package which is just used as in unique ID, and points nowhere really physical... This formalism is not found in DADML, but it should be easy to extend this... maybe it could better be then: dadml://pdb/1crn where DADML is they wat things are resolved, and pdb the service... Egon ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
