Hi there, Sorry I didn't mean it at all from a BioMart user's perspective, you are right with web services from the client side it shouldn't matter. I meant from a fellow software developer's perspective that I feel we need to keep public Perl projects alive and fertile to keep the language and community flourishing. In my opinion the is no reason to change to Java other than just because and this would be a shame.
-L On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Maximilian Haussler <[email protected] > wrote: > Hm, I thought that as most people are going to use the webservices anyways, > it won't really matter for most of us if it's written in Java, Python, Perl > or assembler... ? > > cheers > Max > > > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Leandro Hermida < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi everyone >> >> >>> it is great news that you are porting BioMart to Java! >> >> >> Sorry if I missed something, is the entire BioMart project being ported to >> Java? IMHO opinion that would be a real shame, why? Anyone following the >> Perl landscape knows that it has really made a huge resurrgence in the past >> two years, there really are excellent and mature CPAN modules and frameworks >> out there now (Moose, PAR, Catalyst, DBIx::Class, Padre [an entire IDE for >> Perl by Perl] just to name a few) as well as the Enlightened and Modern Perl >> movements. >> >> Just my 2 cents but I develop in both languages everyday and would prefer >> Perl over Java any day >> >> -Leandro >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Michael Dondrup >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> thank you for all your responses, so we might give the REST interface a >>> try. Anyhow, it is great news that you are porting >>> BioMart to Java! Do you have a time frame for this release? We would be >>> glad to support it in the form of beta-testing >>> or with some WSDL/XSD/services design. Could we? >>> >>> >
