perfsonar development work

[Yee-Ting Li <>]

Hi,

so i'm currently looking into creating nmwg spec xml from a personar  
service written in perl. rather than generating my own xml classes  
which will probably break very easily, i had the idea of porting the  
existing java libraries over to perl.

so...

1) is this a good idea? i'm thinking reuse here for others. i plan on  
keeping as much of the java api as possible within perl.

2) how much of a job is it to do this? i figured once i get the base  
classes ported, the rest should be relatively simple; certainly i  
don't plan on porting /everything/ on the tree just yet.

3) how would we keep the two trunks (java/perl) in sync?

4) do any of the java libraries (like the java namespace classes,  
org.w3c.dom.Document, Content Handler etc) have equivalent packages  
in perl which will make my life simpler?

5) are there any tools to automate as much of this as possible?

6) am i crazy to do this?

Yee.