[Biojava-l] Job / Task Scheduler for Biojava (Webservice)

[Tom Oinn]

Matthew Pocock wrote:
> Tom Oinn wrote:
> 
>> Matthew - you're both on this list and working up at Newcastle, does 
>> this seem reasonable?
> 
> Yes. Very.

Let's hope the BBSRC agree :)

>> I'll be up in a few weeks to talk to the biologists, perhaps we could 
>> get together over a drink or several and see how Taverna and Biojava 
>> could play together? 
> 
> 
> We should sort something out. On a related note, I'm currently writing 
> AXIS web services for biojava sequence & feature objects, which should 
> reduce the overhead of this kind of thing a bit.

Fantastic, we're also very interested in service interfaces to the DAS 
systems (working with the EnsEMBL guys next door from time to time on 
that one). We have some constraints on what kinds of service we can 
consume, basically it boils down to 'don't use complex types in axis', 
but there are some exceptions (collection types are fine). I'm assuming 
you've followed my various rants on the axis user list as to exactly 
why, but we've fallen into the pattern of passing XML documents around 
as strings, so our toolkit doesn't need to know anything about the data 
at that level and yet we retain the structured information where 
possible. We believe there is no good reason why a web service tookit 
should comprehend the structure of the sequence object, for example, 
flowing through it.

Biojava people - please download Taverna and have a play with it, the 
'windows' build is not particularly well named, it's actually all java, 
you'll just need to have 'dot' from graphviz installed and on your path 
and everything will work. We'll be releasing beta7 for macosX and 
hopefully both redhat and debian as well, just to make things a little 
more convenient. We have a user mailing list which might be worth 
subscribing to if this is of any interest, links from taverna.sf.net

Cheers,

Tom