[MOBY-dev] data by reference - a request for comments

[Stian Soiland-Reyes]

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On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Stian Soiland-Reyes
<soiland-reyes at cs.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Edward Kawas <edward.kawas at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Don't worry about Taverna! Whatever we decide will most likely be the same
>> amount of work. So let's just get it right.
>
> Taverna 2 has built-in support for references (and their
> dereferencing) - so you could implement any referencing scheme you
> like, really, there's just a very simple interface to implement:
>
> http://taverna.cvs.sourceforge.net/taverna/t2reference/t2reference-api/src/main/java/net/sf/taverna/t2/reference/ExternalReferenceSPI.java?view=markup
>
>
> Example implementation:
>
> http://taverna.cvs.sourceforge.net/taverna/t2reference/t2reference-core-extensions/src/main/java/net/sf/taverna/t2/reference/impl/external/http/HttpReference.java?view=markup
>
>
> Plain HTTP references should work out of the box, though. You could
> make a version of this and add your own added-value semantics to the
> URIs - and it could still also work with other non-biomoby-services
> that recognised HTTP-URLs.
>
> t2 allows you to add translators between different reference schemes -
> so if you ended up with say "urn:biomoby:fish/1337" and you knew that
> you could download such references by using
> http://download.biomoby.org/fish/1337.xml - you can easily add a
> BiomobyReferenceToHttpReference translator that constructs such URIs
> given the biomoby reference.
>
>
> --
> Stian Soiland-Reyes, myGrid team
> School of Computer Science
> The University of Manchester
> http://www.mygrid.org.uk/dev/blog/
>



-- 
Stian Soiland-Reyes, myGrid team
School of Computer Science
The University of Manchester
http://www.mygrid.org.uk/dev/blog/