[MOBY-dev] Custom BioMOBY Central

[Pieter Neerincx]

Hi Eddie,

I need your help once more. Recently I'm trying to update my alpha  
and beta test Centrals, so they'll have the same functionality as the  
official one. I've got the default stuff up and running on the code  
base (CVS checkout) of about a week ago. Works fine. I updated the  
servlets as well. Some of them work, but some don't. The ones  
required for Taverna are working, but I also wanted to use RDF docs  
for registration of services and updating of existing services. So  
far non of my services used a url to an RDF doc. After fiddling for  
some time with the servlets I found out I need a custom RDF Agent as  
well, but that wasn't mentioned in the docs for setting up a custom  
Central ... I'll update that once I have it all complete and running,  
but I can't get that RDF Agent fully functional :(.

The documentation for setting up an RDF Agent mentions the  
RDFagent_config.txt configuration file. I made the necessary changes  
there, but there's also RDFagent_config.xml. It's not modified  
automatically based on RDFagent_config.txt, so I was wondering what  
it's for and if I have to tweak that one as well.

Secondly, registering or deleting a service based on an RDF doc  
works, but my RDF Agent doesn't detect changes. The last thing it  
logs is:

                 Found a service (Boomerang/dev.bioinformatics.nl) in  
the registry that matches the one in the RDF ...
          Comparing them ...

I remember the discussion about LSIDs and was wondering if my Agent  
needs an LSID server to see that the service has changed. The  
context.xml configuration file for the servlets mentions an LSID  
server and LSID port, but since I don't have an LSID server I  
disabled that part. The docs for the RDF Agent nor for setting up a  
Central nor for installing the servlets mentioned setting up an LSID  
server... So do I need one or can I use the LSID server in Canada  
with my custom BioMOBY Central or can I forget about the LSID server  
completely and should I look somewhere else for a solution?

Cheers,

Pi

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