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

[Mark Wilkinson]

I don't think so... Collections are no more complex than Simples.

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M

On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 10:23, Ken Steube wrote:
> 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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Mark Wilkinson <markw at illuminae.com>
Illuminae