[MOBY-dev] Tentative plan for the MOBY Central move

[Mark Wilkinson]

Ah, I see!  The same solution, but with the http://biomoby.org/mobycentral  
pointing to the old server rather than the new server for ~a month!

Okay, that's more gentle than what I had suggested :-)  Good idea!

M



On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 06:36:11 -0800, Martin Senger  
<martin.senger at gmail.com> wrote:

>> The problem is that i cannot find a way to automatically redirect SOAP
>> calls from the old MOBY Central to the new MOBY Central
>
>
> No, that is not what I have suggested.
>
> I wish it could be silent!  If you know a way to do it, please tell me,
>
>
> Actually the way I am suggesting is the one you suggested and you already
> did :-) You created a stable URL (which is not a URL of a default biomoby
> central, and which is not a URL that is going to change). This URL is  
> able
> to give back a URL and URI of a default registry. This URL is not  
> supposed
> to be widely used directly but it is supposed to be consulted by Perl and
> Java libraries. The library then uses the obtained result as the default  
> URL
> and URI.
>
> In our current case, we can silently include this ability into our  
> libraries
> (as you already did for Perl) and tell people that they have a month (or
> whatever) to update their software (the best way by taking the new  
> versions
> of our Perl and Java libraries - just by 'cvs update'). At the moment,  
> the
> "stable URL" I mentioned above will be still pointing to the icapture  
> moby
> server. After a month (or whatever) we change the result coming from the
> stable URL to point to Calgary server. Nobody notices anything (unless  
> they
> are using their own libraries and they did not develop into them the same
> mechanism in time).
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>