[MOBY] [MOBY-l] rundown of the use of UDDI, WSDL, SOAP, etc. in Moby

[Mark Wilkinson]

:-)  ...ahem... "just" something put together, yes... though you have
correctly predicted that the next major iteration of MOBY Central is
going to attempt to represent/serve the same information from an
underlying RDF store, rather than a relational DB.

M

On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 10:55, Michael Jensen wrote:
> Thank you! Very helpful.
> 
> So if MOBY Central is used then, what is it based on? RDF? Or is it  
> just something put together?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Michael
> 
> 
> On Dec 19, 2003, at 8:58 AM, Mark Wilkinson wrote:
> 
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > It's hard to answer your question given the code below, since you don't
> > actually access a service anywhere in that code :-)
> >
> > For a variety of historical and other reasons, MOBY-S does not use UDDI
> > as its registry - we have our own registry system called MOBY Central.
> > There are people in the project who are considering whether it is
> > practical/possible/desirable to port MOBY Central over to an underlying
> > UDDI registry API, but that is not a high priority.
> >
> > MOBY-S does use WSDL... sort of... If you pursued your code for the  
> > next
> > 5 or 6 lines you would make a call to  
> > retrieveService($ServiceInstance),
> > and this returns a WSDL-compatible document which can be used to make
> > client-side stubs to connect to the service.  This document, however,
> > *does not* describe the actual message structure, since this cannot be
> > predicted a priori (there is a lot of discussion about this in various
> > places - just browse through the docs).  As such, it is not a 100%  
> > valid
> > WSDL document, but it can be consumed by WSDL parsers - certainly
> > SOAP::Lite happily consumes it, and I believe the Java libraries also  
> > do
> > (Martin? Heiko?) in order to create objects representing SOAP
> > connections.
> >
> > the next line in your code would be $s = MOBY::Service->new($wsdl);
> > where you use the WSDL from the retrieveService call to create a  
> > service
> > connection, and then $s->execute(...input data here...)
> >
> > M
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 16:58, Michael Jensen wrote:
> >> These perl modules have been great for not having to mess with
> >> theunderlying protocols like SOAP. One question I have is where does
> >> UDDIand WSDL fit in (if at all) and exactly where and when are they
> >> beingused, say for instance I am using this script for finding all
> >> theservices:
> >>
> >> useMOBY::Client::Central;
> >> my $Central = MOBY::Client::Central->new();
> >> my $types = $Central->retrieveServiceTypes();
> >> print "Description of types of services\n\n";
> >> foreach my $type (keys %{ $types} ) {
> >>     print "Type: ", $type, " Description: ", $$types{$type}, "\n";
> >>     my ($ServiceInstances, $RegObject)
> >> =$Central->findService(serviceType  => $type);
> >>     next if (not $ServiceInstances);
> >>     foreach my $ServiceInstance (@{ $ServiceInstances } ){
> >>         print "\t", $ServiceInstance->name;
> >>         print " (", $ServiceInstance->authority, ")";
> >>         print "\n\t", $ServiceInstance->description, "\n";
> >>     }
> >> }
> >>
> >> (Found
> >> at:http://www.pasteur.fr/%7Eletondal/biomoby/biomoby-tutorial-perl-
> >> sol.html)
> >>
> >> Any resources, explanations, etc. would be greatly appreciated.
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> -Michael
> >> mdjgf8 at mizzou.edu
> >>
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> > Mark Wilkinson <markw at illuminae.com>
> > Illuminae
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