
The org.nddp packages
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The org.nddp packages are contributed by the Natural Diversity Discovery Project
(www.nddp.org) and authored by Tim McPhillips (tmcphillips@nddp.org).  See the
NDDP web site for a description of the project.  

These packages provide support for 'collection-aware' actors that operate on 
streams of tokens structured into nested collections using opening and closing 
delimiter tokens inserted into the data streams.  This approach makes it much 
easier to process the deeply nested data structures typical of bioinformatics 
while maximizing efficiencies that may be gained by concurrently operating on 
collection contents using computational pipelines.

Software license
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See copyright.txt for software license information.


Software support
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Although these packages are provided as part of the Kepler alpha releases, 
all software herein should be considered experimental and subject to change 
at any time.  No support will be provided to users of this version; other 
packages in Kepler are not expected to make use of these packages at this time.

To contribute to these packages please contact Tim McPhillips.

Documentation
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For an overview of the approach taken in this package, please see the 
article "An Approach for Pipelining Nested Collections in Scientific Workflows" 
by T.M. McPhillips and S. Bowers (SIGMOD Record, Vol. 34, No. 3, Sept. 2005) at 
http://www.sigmod.org/record/issues/0509/index.html.
