Zip archive file support

Added support for zip file. (sub-directories supported)
contents is extracted in a sub directory called by the name of the zip file (without ".zip")

Tar file

Add tar archive file support.
contents is uncompressed in a subdirectory called by the name if the archive file name.

[Mged-mage] New Java MAGEstk release

A new version of the Java MAGEstk has been released on the MGED sourceforge site :
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=16076&package_id=27724

Classes for MGED Ontology management releases as separe jar file.

They have not yet been included in the ADF MAGE-ML Tool.

TODO List

• Add default file encoding for reading and writing (set to UTF-8)
• Add support to zip, gz and tgz files
• Change XML Schema namespace from http://www.ebi.ac.uk/adfconverter to http://www.ebi.ac.uk/adf ?
  

The first post

This blog is starting to present progress of the ADF MAGE-ML Tool, from the Microarray Informatics Team at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, UK.

This project starts by a 6 months master project in bioinformatics in the MicroArray Informatics Team..

Sourceforge web page

The sourceforfe web page is now up.
Not so different from the EBI page.

13th November 2004

The project is now on sourceforge: http://adfconverter.sourceforge.net.
I restarted to work on it after the end of my master (end of october).

• Adding license to each source file
• add checking of configuration properties (it's always better to check every parameter).