[MOBY] Re: [MOBY-dev] speaking of installation problems...

[Mark Wilkinson]

On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 10:50, Ken Steube wrote:

> I have successfully created a service.  Biggest difficulty:  a lack of
> examples.  MOBY and SOAP::Lite dispatch aren't at all intuitive and it
> would help a lot to have some working examples and simple instructions
> on how to install and run them at my site. I wasn't sure of what to do
> with URIs and that was a big stumbling block.

right.  I do specify in the documentation that the URI's are constant,
but I should probably put that in red blinking bold type as it is
counterintuitive ;-)

I will write a couple of simple examples and include them in the CVS. 
In reality, i should be able to write an install script that does
everything for you, as installation is really so simple...


> Now I'm busily studying some of the technologies MOBY uses in preparation
> for writing services for our plant phosphorylation site at
> http://plantsp.sdsc.edu.

Paul Kulchenko (author of SOAP::Lite) just published an O'reilly book
(copyright 2003!!) that i was reading last night.  It is a great intro
to SOAP technology.  I'm most interested in getting his overview/opinion
of UDDI as my impression of it is quite negative (as is his, as far as I
can tell from my private conversations with him) but I want to see what
he says "in print" :-)

 
> By the way, I set up my own MOBY Central only so that I can learn how
> service registration works.  Once I have a good grasp on using Central
> I'll ditch mine and use yours.

no problem there - I am only concerned that "general users" are going to
think that they need to install it in order to participate in the MOBY
game.

I guess I dont make that explicitly clear anywhere in the
documentation...

M


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