This isn't a bad idea - you might consider delivering the data as JSON; I think that should be something that you could find a Java library to parse. It completely insulates the Java consumer from having to know anything about the data's on-disk format, which is the point here.

You may need to provide something to impedance-match the Java code and the returned JSON, and supply that to the Java folks, most likely as another .jar file.

I think this is really your best option, since it should be quite easy to do. You will need to write the BioPerl-to-JSON code to add to your server and the JSON-to-whatever-format library for the Java code, but those are both smallish and easily-testable pieces of code.

In reply to Re^3: reading perl objects with java by pemungkah
in thread reading perl objects with java by baj

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