Anyone tried using a full handle-server install for things like net.handle.apps.batch.GenericBatch?

[Nick Lauland]

I have a user interested in manipulating existing handles.  DSpace itself doesn't provide an API for this, but handle-server itself does.

I downloaded the full version of the handle-server package (that corresponds with DSpace 6.x) from handle.net, and it comes with many scripts etc.  By looking at these I found I can access the handle-server's API itself, behind DSpace's back (so to speak), such as:

java -cp lib/handle-6.2.jar net.handle.apps.batch.GenericBatch

My instinct says this might be very dangerous, since any changes wouldn't be reflected in DSpace's database.  So, for example, if I did use GenericBatch, I'd have to also make sure I changed everything related in the database...which, again, might be a bad thing to even try.

Has anyone tried something like this?  And/or do you guys think this should even be contemplated?

Thanks!