This provide an experimental implementation of a Java API to the combine archive (http://co.mbine.org/documents/archive).
The archive maintains the manifest of the archive and provides access to the metadata file to enable custom annotation of the archive. It provides basic annotation of the archive including the creation and modification dates of the contents. This could be extended to include, for example, the date elements were added to the archive etc.
The API is relatively simple to use. There are two examples files in the that show how to create and populate a new archive and also how to update an existing archive. These are called:
CreateNewArchiveTest.java
UpdateArchiveTest.java
Feedback and suggestions are welcome.
Stuart Moodie.
15 May 2013.
Copyright EMBL-EBI 2013.
This code is licensed under Apache V2.0. See LICENSE for more details.