[MOBY-dev] GET Moby Service WSDL: RESTful BioMOBY

[Damian Gessler]

> This is great. If only all services were GETtable, the web would
> probably be a better place.
>

FYI, this the model of SSWAP (http://sswap.info)--the new name for what  
used to be called Semantic MOBY.

Service descriptions are available via HTTP GETs, for which a RDF/XML  
OWL-DL graph is returned.  (Search for anything on http://sswap.info and  
then click on the RDF icon next to a returned service name to see the  
graph).

Service invocation is just as simple: either a HTTP POST to the same URL  
or a GET w/ the graph in-line as the query substring component of the URL  
(everything after the '?'). [The latter is fully RESTful and can be  
bookmarked, but may confuse some old servers or proxies that limit URLs to  
1024 chars, etc.].

Damian.