[Biojava-dev] Webservices

[Scooter Willis]

Niall

I have the web services biojava implementation on my list of things to do! I have an upcoming project that doing Blast through web services to external sources and internal sources will make things easier. I like what axis2 is doing on making it easy to publish web services but using Netbeans as an example it is fairly painless to create a web service. Since we are mainly focused on consuming web services it would be nice to use the built in support of Java 6 to keep the external library count as low as possible which also helps avoid conflicts when an external application is using a different version of the same external library.

I think the main driving force as you mention is that much will depend on the provider of the web service as to what web services client library will be needed.

Thanks

Scooter


On 7/30/09 12:32 PM, "Niall Haslam" <niall at sgenomics.org> wrote:

Hi,

I know it was brought up in the users list a month or two ago. But I wanted to
ask in the Dev list what the consensus is on creating a biojava module for
webservices clients. I am interested and have a little code to contribute. I
think it would consist of mainly example code in how to use the webservice.
And critically would not incorporate the stub code generated by axis. I would
also bump for axis2. I think this could have the benefit of making services
more standards compliant. But we'll probably have to do it on a case by case
basis.

I'd also like to know if there are people who are interested in using or
writing some of it as well.

Thanks and looking forward to your input,

Niall.
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