[Biojava-l] GO web service

[Jason Stajich]

Neil - I was the project driver for biocorba for a while - we did do some
development on bioperl-corba client/server this spring at the Hackathon to
finish off the round-tripping.  As did Thomas and Brad for their
respective libraries at the event.

The current IDL is a merge with the BSANE/BioCORBA spec and it could
probably use 1 more round of refactoring after Thomas (Java), Ewan & Jason
(Perl), Brad Chapman (Python) did the initial client and server
implementations and found a few things difficult or inconsistent (esp wrt
to locations)

Basically though, I can't really spend any time driving the project any
further due to my committments to school, but that shouldn't prevent it
from living on as I actually came into the project quite a while after
many of the ideas had been laid down.  I'm quite happy for someone else to
be the driver for the project if they'd like to see it go further.  We do
have at least 90% working libraries in all the projects so I think it is
an excellent starting point if you wanted to leverage existing code.

-jason


On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Neill White wrote:

> > WooHa!  I think I learned my lesson from the last go round like Ewan.  I'm
> > not touching this with a ten foot pole.
> >
> > BTW, I have experience building commercial systems with both CORBA and Web
> > Services.  I will simply say that arguing about protocols is a waste of
> > time.  They're both just tools.
>
> > Mike
>
> Ewan, Mike-
>
> Can someone explain what exactly *happened* to the CORBA push?  A
> while back it looked like there was a lot of work going in to CORBA
> to tie all the bio* projects together.  Now, the bioCORBA mailing
> list is deserted - except for an occasional email tumbleweed about
> the high cost of tobacco in England.  The corba branch in bioperl
> (bioperl-corba-server) hasn't been modified in almost a year.  In
> regards to the bio* project - is CORBA dead?
>
> -neill
>
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Jason Stajich
Duke University
jason at cgt.mc.duke.edu