[Biojava-l] Webservices clients in bio-java

[Andreas Prlic]

makes sense and fits to the more detailed discussion we are having on
biojava-dev right now.

A


On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:29 AM, James Procter
<jimp at compbio.dundee.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi All.
>
> Mark Schreiber wrote:
>> There was a recent discussion of generated code on the list. A good solution
>> for webservices may be to put the wsdl and high level api in the repository
>> and let jax-ws tools autogenerate the client biolerplate code.
>
> Just to clarify - by high-level API you mean the interface to the code
> that takes biojava objects as arguments and translates them into
> parameters for the service and vice versa for the results ?
>
> With regard to the recent(ish) discussion about modularisation in BJ3,
> I'd suggest that a module is created for each distinct WSDL containing
> the glue code for connecting BJ objects with the boilerplate code. The
> glue code implements factory methods to generate instances of
> appropriate BJ service APIs, which are defined in a core BJ module. This
> means that the WSDL + API implementation is decoupled from the BJ
> service API.
>
> Does that make sense (and/or am I simply stating the obvious here) ?
>
> Jim.
>
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