[MOBY-dev] graphs of the services and data types

[Martin Senger]

Mark,
   Inspiring by some comments made during our meeting, and pleased with
the wireless Starbucks cofee at the Vancouver airport, I wrote a Java
client that asks Moby central for a list of services and data types and
creates a graph of them.
   The first version is very preliminary - I will be working on it
further. Just now, I need some feedback, because I am not sure if I
understand fully how services should be connected. Especially I am not
sure how to combine services that has collections as their outputs. Should
such services be connected with a service that consume a single element of
such collection, for exanple?
   Could you please check the current pictures (they are based on the moby
central snapshot of today) and tell me what is wrong, what connections are
missing (the services with collections are not there at all)?

   Pictures are available at:
   http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/~senger/jMoby/images/data-types.png
   http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/~senger/jMoby/images/services.png.

   When I get feedback I plan to make creation of such pictures available
in several forms:

   a) as a real MOBY service, and
   b) as a Java client distributed within jMoby, and
   c) as a web GUI allowing to call the MOBY service and show immediatelly
current graphs.

   Please give me any other feedback.

   Regards,
   Martin

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