[MOBY-l] RE: [Biojava-l] To Do Question

[Dickson, Mike]

I'd love to know more about what technical issues were discussed and also
what requirements were used when discussing it.   BTW, LION's
DiscoveryCenter product's client/server interaction is entirely web services
based so this is one area I'm preparing to eat my own lunch...

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jason at openinformatics.com [mailto:jason at openinformatics.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 1:52 PM
> To: Dickson, Mike
> Cc: 'David Block'; Chaganthi, Madhusudan R.; Matthew Pocock;
> smh1008 at cus.cam.ac.uk; biojava-l at biojava.org; Thomas Down; Biomoby (E-
> mail)
> Subject: Re: [MOBY-l] RE: [Biojava-l] To Do Question
> 
> "Dickson, Mike" <mdickson at netgenics.com> writes:
> 
> > Why re-solve in possibly incompatible ways problems that platform
> > and infrastructure vendors are already addressing?
> 
> Excellent question! There are too many interesting things to do to
> bother re-solving already solved problems.
> 
> But...
> 
> It was the general consensus that UDDI both provided too little of
> what we needed while at the same time providing way more than what we
> need.
> 
> So instead of trying to move the UDDI consortium or the I3C consortium
> to do what we want them to do (before we understand what it is that we
> want to do), we're going to implement a nuts-and-bolts version of what
> we need as quickly as we can to test our ideas.
> 
> Once we know what the crucial pieces are that are missing from UDDI,
> we can go back to them and explain why they should add what we need,
> together with the suggestion for implementing a UDDI::Lite that
> enables just those features that we need.
> 
> Hope this fluffy discusion of the issues was useful. I'll let Brian or
> Mark weigh in with the technical details.
> 
> Cheers,
> jas.