[MOBY] Re: [MOBY-dev] The winds of change are a-blowin'!

[Mark Wilkinson]

I agree.

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On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 07:16, Martin Senger wrote:
> I am very pleased to hear about new changes - they all look exciting. And 
> I am sure that we will use the nearest opportunity (the Singapore one) to 
> discuss them further.
> 
> Here is one other thing to consider - the one coming from the discussion
> with Phil Lord (myGrid): notification. What I understood from what he
> explained to me is this:
> 
> In the future, there may be more ways how to query the BioMoby repository.  
> Some of them may rely of additional data that are not necessarilly stored
> directly within BiMoby repository (for example a semantically richer
> repository may accept queries defined in a ontology-specific query
> language which is not supported directly by BioMOby). This may look like a
> plug-in architecture in order to extend the BioMoby features - and it is,
> indeed. However, in order to allow seamless synchronization of such
> "plug-ins" it would make sense if BioMoby registry can accept
> subscriptions and later, when the repository contents changes, notify
> subscribers about the changes. Such notification may be welcome not only
> by another repositories to synchronize with a central moby but also for
> the "normal" clients which can seamlessly incorporate newly registered 
> services, etc.
> 
> Martin
> 
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