[Biojava-dev] Webservices and choise of SOAP software

[Dickson, Mike]

My recommendation is to stick to the JAX-RPC standard.  Most of the SOAP
vendors are moving there or are already implementing it.  Apache Axis does.
Also the Sun JWSDP is actually quite nice, implement JAX-RPC and is readily
available to anyone.

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kalle Näslund [mailto:kalle.naslund@genpat.uu.se]
> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 11:05 AM
> To: biojava-dev@biojava.org
> Subject: [Biojava-dev] Webservices and choise of SOAP software
> 
> <HI!><
> 
> I have been looking a bit at the webservices module in biojava, and it
> seems
> to depend on GLUE ( www.themindelectric.com ).  From a quick look it seems
> GLUE is available in two versions, one standard and one pro.
> The standard version ( witch is what the biojava webservice code relies
> on as i understand it )
> Is free, as in it doesnt cost any money to use, but it comes under its
> own licence,  and its
> provided as binaries only.
> 
> As BioJava is an opensource project, wouldnt it be better if we relied on
> some opensource alternative to GLUE ?
> 
> There are several reasons why sticking to opensource alternatives are
> preferable such as
> 
> 1) By going with binary only solutions you are loosing one of the big
> wins with opensource,
>     the possibility to immediately fix bugs, and the possibility to
> actualy change the code so
>     it suits your needs.
> 
>     If people want things GLUE standard doesnt support then there is no
> other alternative
>     but to hope that themindelectric implements it in GLUE pro, and then
> pay for it.
> 
> 2) Keeping track of several different licences, that limit what you can
> and can not do makes
>     it hard for people that want to use biojava in commercial settings
> to figure out what they
>     can and cant do.
> 
> 3) Long time support and future, will themindelectric provide GLUE
> standard under the
>     same licence for a long time ? what happens if they dont ?
> 
> 4) The old saying of sticking the money where the mouth is. If we claim
> biojava is opensource
>     and being opensource is good, then it doesnt look that good if we
> rely on lots of closed source
>     binary only things.
> 
> There are other altenatives to GLUE, personaly i would think AXIS (
> http://xml.apache.org/axis )
> might be a good choice. But, if there are other alternatives aswell.
> 
> Mind, this is just my thoughts, what do YOU think ?
> 
> mvh ( kind regards or something ) Kalle
> 
> 
> 
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