[MOBY-dev] Progress on services and object question

[Martin Senger]

> 
> BTW we could provide an iterator that returns all the values of the
> <Object.../> that any client would use. I'll try to come up with something
> useful unless it's already in the works.
>
   You may look at OpenBQS (http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/openBQS), a 
web-service interface over MEDLINE.
   Regarding iterator, I think (please correct me if I am wrong), you 
would need a sequence of (at least) two methods - first to get an 
iterator, second to get data using this iterator. Therefore, you would 
need to split the service into two services in order to follow the basic 
BioMoby (transformation) rule "one service = one method".

   Martin

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