[MOBY-l] UDDI vs. WS-Inspection vs roll-your-own

[mwilkinson at gene.pbi.nrc.ca]

Phillip Lord wrote:

>  I guess my approach to experimentation, is
> use a standard until you know that it is broken, or just will not do
> what you want it to.

Possibly.  It seems more likely, however, that you will limit your
thinking to only those things that you know the standard can handle ;-)

In any case, I simply don't care.  Bah!!  What we're trying to accomplish
here is the definition of a *behaviour* that allows us to discover
biological data and services in an intuitive way, and hopefully
facilitates the ability to build fully or semi-automated systems to do
this for us.  All we need to determine right now are the components of
the system, and the set of API calls that will accomplish this.  After
that, you can implement it any way you please - if it can be done on top
of UDDI, then fantastic.  If not, then we either suggest to the UDDI
consortium that they add new features, or we stick to our own registry
system (or we use whatever new standard has appeared in the
meantime...).  Either way, I simply don't care - I just want to figure
out how to make it do what we all want it to do as quickly as possible,
and we can experiment with various underlying implementation issues once
we get there.  The critical thing is to determine which of our ideas are
well-founded, and which are an ugly can of worms - personally, I think I
can do that faster with the very simple registry that we have running
already...

Phil, we need to go for another beer!

M


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