[DAS] Re: [Call to action] Retrieval of positions from feature identifiers

[Brian Gilman]

I totally agree with Mathew on this one. Each "Business Entity" can be
easy mapped to into this domain. Why reinvent the wheel?? Our group will
be deploying a UDDI server for people to play with. I think this will
allow us to get our head wrapped around UDDI and how it fits in the web
services architecture. 

				Best, 

					-brian

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Brian Gilman <gilmanb@genome.wi.mit.edu>
Sr. Software Engineer MIT/Whitehead Inst. Center for Genome Research
One Kendall Square, Bldg. 300 / Cambridge, MA 02139-1561 USA
phone +1 617  252 1069 / fax +1 617 252 1902


On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Matthew Pocock wrote:

> Hi Lincoln, still some questions...
> 
> > On the subject of UDDI, I've read through the specs, but the language
> > that they use "business contacts", "access points", "businessEntity",
> > "businessKey" is totally business oriented.  There is certainly a lot
> > that we can borrow from the specification, but to implement the 40
> > SOAP messages required by a fully compliant UDDI registry is not only
> > overkill, but most of the messages are irrelevant to what we want to
> > do.
> > 
> > Lincoln
> > 	
> 
> 
> Why is bioinformatics so special that we need to invent something 
> ourself from scratch? We haven't written our own DNS, and SQL databases 
> are starting to be used widely. The UDDI specs do use business words a 
> lot in the spec, but they have obvious mappings to things like research 
> institutes and services we want to publicise. I doubt anybody writing a 
> DAS server will implement a UDDI registry - why not just register with 
> IBM, Microsoft or one of the other free registration services? If most 
> messages are irrelevant, then we won't need to use them. There are uddi 
> client libraries for several languages, so DAS client and server 
> implementations probably just need to link against one of these to be 
> uddi-tastic. Plus, if we use a public service like this, then we have a 
> much better chance of getting a high-availability service.
> 
> Just to be clear, I have no personal attachment to UDDI, but it is as I 
> understand it the industry standard and globaly accessible method for 
> publishing SOAP services, and that is the itch we're trying to scratch. 
> If something else is, then we should use that instead.
> 
> Matthew
> 
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