[MOBY-dev] GET Moby Service WSDL

[Mark Wilkinson]

Hi all,

Just FYI, I have just set-up a way to retrieve the Moby Service WSDL from  
a URL.  This isn't an official part of the API, but we should probably  
consider adding it, since almost every SOAP tool expects to be able to  
retrieve WSDL from a URL.

The pattern is:

http://biomoby.org/services/wsdl/auth.uri/serviceName

e.g.

http://biomoby.org/services/wsdl/antirrhinum.net/getDragonAlleleLocus

My **intention** is that these URLs are stable.  That URL actually proxies  
through to mobycentral.icapture.ubc.ca so even when we move Moby Central  
to Calgary next month the URL will not change.

Let me know if it doesn't work for you.  We're going to use these URLs in  
an upcoming "Annotation Jamboree" that I hope you will all participate  
in!  We want to improve the search power of Moby Central by adding lots of  
extra metadata to the service descriptions.  My PhD student Ben is  
currently writing the Jamboree interface, which fits into his thesis on  
mass-collaborative knowledge capture, so by participating you will not  
only be improving Moby Central, but you will also be helping Ben Good to  
graduate ;-)

Cheers all!

Mark


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Mark Wilkinson
Assistant Professor, Dept. Medical Genetics
University of British Columbia
PI Bioinformatics
iCAPTURE Centre, St. Paul's Hospital
Tel:  604 682 2344 x62129
Fax:  604 806 9274

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