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This distribution contains three Perl modules for the price of one.
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They all provide facilities for building information retrieval clients
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using the standard Z39.50 and SRW/U protocols, but do so using
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different APIs.
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- If you are new to this distribution, then you should use the ZOOM
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API, and ignore the others. It is the cleanest, most elegant and
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intuitive, and most closely follows the letter as well as the spirit
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of the Abstract ZOOM API as specified at http://zoom.z3950.org/api/
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- If you have used the old Net::Z3950 module and have to maintain an
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application that calls that API, then you will want to use the
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Net::Z3950 classes provided in this distribution, which provide an
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API compatible with the old module's implemented on top of the new
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ZOOM code.
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- You should definitely not use the Net::Z3950::ZOOM API, which is not
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object-oriented, and instead provides the thinnest possible layer on
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top of the ZOOM-C functions in the YAZ toolkit. This API exists
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only in order to have ZOOM API built on top of it.
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