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| 4 | $Id: overview.html 3409 2007-05-30 13:35:40Z nicklas $ |
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| 6 | Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Jari Häkkinen, Nicklas Nordborg, Gregory Vincic |
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| 8 | This file is part of BASE - BioArray Software Environment. |
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| 9 | Available at http://base.thep.lu.se/ |
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| 11 | BASE is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it |
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| 13 | the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or |
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| 16 | BASE is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but |
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| 26 | |
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| 27 | <body> |
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| 28 | <h2>The BASE API</h2> |
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| 29 | |
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| 30 | <p> |
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| 31 | The <b>Public API</b> is intended to be used by client application |
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| 32 | or plug-in developers. We guarantee a certain degree of stability |
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| 33 | among the classes and methods in the public API. See documentation |
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| 34 | on the <a href="http://base.thep.lu.se">BASE web site</a> for more information. |
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| 35 | </p> |
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| 36 | |
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| 37 | <p> |
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| 38 | The <b>Extension API</b> is intended to be used by developers extending |
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| 39 | the internal BASE functionality. The classes and interfaces in these packages |
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| 40 | are not intended to be used by plug-ins or client applications. |
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| 41 | </p> |
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| 42 | |
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| 43 | <p> |
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| 44 | The <b>Internal API</b> contains code used by the internal implementation |
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| 45 | of BASE. Client applications and plug-ins should not use the classes |
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| 46 | and methods in theese packages. |
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| 47 | </p> |
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| 48 | |
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| 49 | <p> |
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| 50 | The <b>Mixed Public and Internal API</b> packages contains some |
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| 51 | classes that belong to the <b>Public API</b> and some classes that |
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| 52 | belong to the <b>Internal API</b>. |
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| 53 | </p> |
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| 54 | |
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| 55 | <ul> |
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| 56 | <li> |
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| 57 | In <code>net.sf.basedb.core.data</code> the <code>BatchableData</code> |
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| 58 | interface and all classes that implements it part of the public API. |
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| 59 | </li> |
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| 60 | |
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| 61 | <li> |
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| 62 | The <code>net.sf.basedb.clients.web.util.HTML</code> is part of |
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| 63 | the public API. |
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| 64 | </li> |
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| 65 | |
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| 66 | <li> |
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| 67 | The <code>net.sf.basedb.clients.web.Base</code> and |
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| 68 | <code>net.sf.basedb.clients.web.WebException</code> are part of |
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| 69 | the public API. |
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| 70 | </li> |
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| 71 | </ul> |
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| 72 | |
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| 73 | <p> |
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| 74 | All other classes in are part of the internal API. |
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| 75 | </p> |
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| 76 | |
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| 77 | </body> |
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