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

[Ewan Birney]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Brian Gilman wrote:

> 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. 

40 SOAP messages to do discovery?


(I have to admit, all this SOAP/UDDI whatever stuff *is just badly written
CORBA* Jeez. People want a Trading service right from CORBA terms?)


> 
> 				Best, 
> 
> 					-brian
> 
> -----------------------
> Brian Gilman <gilmanb@genome.wi.mit.edu>
> Sr. Software Engineer MIT/Whitehead Inst. Center for Genome Research
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> 
> 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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