Re: [Jreferences-developers] JReferences

[Egon W. <eg...@sc...>]

On Wednesday 9 January 2002 18:52, Egon Willighagen wrote:
> I am working towards a better implementation...

Done. It is released as version 0.4.0.

> Added are a reference database API (alpha stage).
> Backends can implement this (like the MySQL backend),
> but a File backend is going to be implemented as well...

The file backend is working too... it generates a binary file
called references.db, which are the <java-mode>serialized</java-mode> 
references...

> Moreover, the base classes are undergoing a redesign:
>
> Reference
>  +--> ArticleRef
>  +--> BookRef
>  +--> etc

Only article and book references are implemented right now... over the
next few weeks other bibtex references will follow...

> Each ref will have fields including those from BibTex, but
> some extra too, like a field given the URL to a file (PDF, PS etc)...
>
> Christoph, you might want to wait implementing filters until this
> is done.

You can start now... :)

On my TODO list:
- more bibtex reference types
- bibtex output with Java (webfront already has this)
- import of BibTeXML
- refdb (http://refdb.sf.net) backend

Egon