In silico restriction enzyme digest of eukaryotic genome

Update: see this newer post.

I'm trying to find a resource for in silico restriction enzyme digestion of a eukaryotic genome. Here's what I've found so far:

A suggestion in the SeqAnswers forum to use Biopieces. Biopieces looks like it was written by Martin Hansen. This link contains the documentation for the digest_seq component. This link for documentation of extract_seq may also be useful. Here is a bit from that post on SeqAnswers:
read_fasta -i genome.fna | digest_seq -p GGATCC -c 1 | plot_lendist -k SEQ_LEN -x

Some code in Java posted on a forum here at the BioStar forums by a user named Pierre Lindenbaum. The code posted follows:
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream;



public class Digest
    {
    private static final String CHROMOSOMES[]={
        "chr1","chr2","chr3",
        /* etc */
        "chrY"
        };
    private static class Enzyme
        {
        String name;
        String site;
        public Enzyme(String name,String site)
            {
            this.name=name;
            this.site=site.toUpperCase();
            }
        }
    //see   
    private static final Enzyme ENZYMES[]=new Enzyme[]
        {
        new Enzyme("AatII","gacgtc"),
        new Enzyme("AbsI","cctcgagg"),
        new Enzyme("Acc65I","ggtacc"),
        /* (...) */
        new Enzyme("BamHI","ggatcc"),
        /* (...) */
        new Enzyme("EcoRI","gaattc"),
        /* (...) */
        new Enzyme("XmnI","gaannnnttc")
        };

    private static boolean compatible(char a,char b)
        {
        b=Character.toUpperCase(b);
        if("ATGC".indexOf(b)==-1) return false;
        switch(a)
            {
            case 'A': return b==a;
            case 'T': return b==a;
            case 'G': return b==a;
            case 'C': return b==a;


            case 'W': return "AT".indexOf(b)!=-1;
            case 'S': return "GC".indexOf(b)!=-1;
            case 'R': return "AG".indexOf(b)!=-1;
            case 'Y': return "CT".indexOf(b)!=-1;
            case 'M': return "AC".indexOf(b)!=-1;
            case 'K': return "GT".indexOf(b)!=-1;


            case 'B': return "CGT".indexOf(b)!=-1;
            case 'D': return "AGT".indexOf(b)!=-1;
            case 'H': return "ACT".indexOf(b)!=-1;
            case 'V': return "ACG".indexOf(b)!=-1;

            case 'N': return "ACGT".indexOf(b)!=-1;

            default: return false;
            }
        }



    public static void main(String[] args)
        {
        try
            {
            for(Enzyme enzyme:ENZYMES)
                {
                for(String chr:CHROMOSOMES)
                    {
                    URL url=new URL("http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/chromosomes/"+chr+".fa.gz");
                    BufferedReader r=new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new GZIPInputStream(url.openStream())));
                    int c;
                    int genome_pos=0;
                    int previous_pos=0;
                    char buffer[]=new char[enzyme.site.length()];
                    int buffer_length=0;
                    while((c=r.read())!=-1)
                        {
                        if(c=='>')
                            {
                            while((c=r.read())!=-1 && c!='\n') { /* skip */}
                            genome_pos=0;
                            buffer_length=0;
                            previous_pos=0;
                            continue;
                            }
                        if(!Character.isLetter(c)) continue;
                        buffer[buffer_length++]=(char)c;
                        genome_pos++;

                        if(buffer_length==buffer.length)
                            {
                            int i=0;
                            for(i=0;i< buffer.length;++i)
                                {
                                if(!compatible(enzyme.site.charAt(i),buffer[i])) break;
                                }
                            if(i==buffer.length)
                                {
                                System.out.println(
                                    chr+"\t"+enzyme.name+"\t"+(previous_pos)+
                                    "\t"+(genome_pos-buffer.length)+
                                    "\t"+((genome_pos-buffer.length)-previous_pos)
                                    );
                                previous_pos=genome_pos-buffer.length;
                                }
                            buffer_length--;
                            System.arraycopy(buffer, 1, buffer, 0, buffer.length-1);
                            }

                        }
                    r.close();
                    System.out.println(
                            chr+"\t"+enzyme.name+"\t"+(previous_pos)+
                            "\t"+(genome_pos-buffer.length)+
                            "\t"+((genome_pos-buffer.length)-previous_pos)
                            );
                    }
                }
            }
        catch (Exception e)
            {
            e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    }
Compilation:
javac Digest.java
Execution:
java Digest
Output:
chr1    AatII    0    47476    47476
chr1    AatII    47476    70600    23124
chr1    AatII    70600    164453    93853
chr1    AatII    164453    170555    6102
chr1    AatII    170555    175979    5424
chr1    AatII    175979    325093    149114
chr1    AatII    325093    360629    35536
chr1    AatII    360629    369596    8967
chr1    AatII    369596    568607    199011
chr1    AatII    568607    568665    58
chr1    AatII    568665    620090    51425
(...)

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