[BioRuby] Removal of Bio::SOAPWSDL, Bio::EBI::SOAP, Bio::HGC::HiGet

[Fields, Christopher J]

Re: expiring SOAP services I believe you can also add NCBI to that list.

Chris

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> On Jun 29, 2015, at 1:23 PM, Naohisa GOTO <ngoto at gen-info.osaka-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I now give up maintaining Bio::SOAPWSDL and all SOAP client classes
> in BioRuby, because SOAP4R (SOAP/WSDL library in Ruby) is no longer
> bundled with Ruby since Ruby 1.9 and I think all currently available
> gems of SOAP4R are not well-maintained. So, I feel difficulty to
> maintain SOAP/WSDL clients in BioRuby. Moreover, many SOAP servers
> have been retired, including old versions of KEGG API and DDBJ WABI.
> 
> Removed components:
> * Bio::SOAPWSDL (lib/bio/io/soapwsdl.rb)
> * Bio::EBI::SOAP (lib/bio/io/ebisoap.rb)
> * Bio::HGC::HiGet (lib/bio/io/higet.rb)
> * Bio::Shell#ebisoap (lib/bio/shell/plugin/soap.rb)
> 
> In addition to the above reasons, Bio::HGC::HiGet is removed because
> the HiGet web server http://higet.hgc.jp/ have been down since 2011,
> and I think that the server will not be restored again.
> 
> Naohisa Goto
> ngoto at gen-ingo.osaka-u.ac.jp / ng at bioruby.org
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