Localization issues
Support for different languages Registry contents should be UTF-8 – Registry code needs to check this, and if it isn’t UTF-8 then either convert it, or reject it, or save the encoding. DECISION:...
View ArticleDay two: The future of the Moby protocol
Problem #1: Registry We have a problem that the registry is a mishmash of Perl and Java. The RESOURCES script is problematic since it is used by MOBY::Central to generate the RDF that is passed back...
View Articlemonitoring Moby usage
If we had a “referrer” that kept track of the previous service that was executed this would go into the service provider logs. We could then set up a service (pull) that Moby Central could use to...
View ArticleBioMoby jMoby developers meeting – hour #1
In attendance: Mark, Eddie, Wendy, Richard, Ivan, Andreas, Paul, Martin, Mylah We started with jokes about the danger of having the core Moby developers in the same room of a brick hospital built on...
View ArticleBioMoby Developers Meeting TODO list
API Changes: 1: Storage of xml-lang information in registry is necessary; providers should pay attention to which xml-lang attribute they send to the registry when they register their...
View ArticlejMoby using Maven
Major changes in building and using jMoby were introduced during the BioHackathlon meeting in Japan. The changes, however, are not changes of the jMoby API – which means that your own code should...
View ArticlejMoby – faster access to biomoby registries
Eddie Kawas released a new implementation (no API changes) of the org.biomoby.client.CentralCachedCallsImpl class – now getting the contents of the registry using the RDF files. When all bugs are...
View ArticleNew CPAN Releases!
New releases of the MOBY 1.04, MOBY-Client 1.02 and MOSES-MOBY 0.86 modules are available on CPAN! View the change log for details on what was fixed, and any new functionality.
View ArticleNew Perl MoSeS Panel in Dashboard
For those developing Perl based BioMOBY services, there is a new panel in Dashboard! The panel is called the ‘Perl-MoSeS Generator‘ and can be used to generate service skeletons for both CGI and SOAP...
View ArticleMoby Dashboard as Java WebStart
Andreas Groscurth at the Max Planck Institute, Cologne, has made the Moby Dashboard available as a Java WebStart app! Well done Andreas! Dashboard is the most powerful and comprehensive “view” of the...
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