[Biojava-dev] Biojava Interface to BLAST web/remote services

[Sylvain Foisy]

Hi Scooter,

On 04/06/09 07:38, "[NAME]" <[ADDRESS]> wrote:

> Looks like the rolled their own URL interface and did not do a WSDL. Not a big
> deal but does appear they have some sort of submit get a "ticket" and then
> check back with the "ticket" identifier for the results. The BioJava API would
> hide the transport layer so you could use a custom URL approach or web
> services. 

That is basically the way it works. I am working on a RemoteBlastWrapper
class that would do exactly what you are writing.

  
> Not sure how the other WSDL interfaces handle long running tasks but I assume
> the Web Services can handle a call that takes say 5 minutes to respond without
> timing out. Some process would need to distinguish between a long running
> server task and a server that is no longer responding.

We'll have to try ;-)

Best regards

Sylvain


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