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

[Ken Steube]

If you show all connections for services with collections as input/output
the graph will quickly become unmanagable. Maybe you would have something
clickable to expand a single service to show all connections thru its
collection.

Ken

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Martin Senger wrote:

> 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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Ken Steube            steube at sdsc.edu
San Diego Supercomputer Center @ UCSD
San Diego, California             USA