[MOBY-dev] New MobyServlet methodology

[Paul Gordon]

Hi all,

FYI, I have made a major change to the way MobyServlet works.  It now 
uses Java annotations to define service meta-data.  For those of you not 
familiar with this Java 1.5 feature, here is how you'd write a service:

import org.biomoby.shared.data.*;
import org.biomoby.service.*;

@mobyService(name="ConvertAAtoFASTA_AA",
             type="FormatConversion", 
	     provider="moby.ucalgary.ca", 
	     author="gordonp at ucalgary.ca",
	     in={"inseq:AminoAcidSequence"},
	     out={"outseq:FASTA_AA"},
	     description={"Converts amino acid objects into FastA formatted records, ", 
			  "primarily to increase inter-service compatibility"})

public class ConvertAAtoFASTA_AA extends MobyServlet{

    public void processRequest(MobyDataJob request, MobyDataJob result) throws Exception{
       // insert your code here...
    }
}

That's it!  We've created an Ant build file (and an associated 
properties file) to support this, the highlights being:

ant test
ant war
ant registerService

Please see the detailed tutorial at 
http://biomoby.open-bio.org/CVS_CONTENT/moby-live/Java/docs/deployingServices.html
If anyone's got an Oracle or IBM servlet engine to test this on, I'd 
appreciate the feedback.

Regards,

Paul (with Quang Trinh's help on the Ant stuff)