[MOBY-dev] {Spam?} Re: The Agent behaviour - discussion and questions to the MOBY community

[Pieter Neerincx]

On 8-Aug-2006, at 2:28 PM, Paul Gordon wrote:

> Reading my own e-mail, I have an idea:  make the empty-ping behaviour
> part of the MOBY API (which clients MAY call), AND require a valid  
> test
> case in the RDF description (which MOBY Central WILL call to measure
> robustness).  The best of both world, no?

Yes, that sounds good to me. I agree with Martin that a ping should  
be a quick method to check whether a service is up. I welcome the  
idea of forcing "production quality" services to implement example  
inputs and outputs to improve robustness, while making this optional  
for beta services. This should already be possible using LSID  
resolution, but I was wondering if there is anybody out there who  
actually implemented this and is using it. If so, is there some  
documentation on how to do this?

Cheers,

Pi

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