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

[Lincoln Stein]

Hi Matthew,

If there are free registration servers, that's a different matter.  I
was laboring under the impression that each set of cooperators had to
set up their own registration server.  The UDDI pages list
registration servers, but they seem to be specific to particular
business types, such as the insurance industry.

Lincoln

Matthew Pocock writes:
 > 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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