[Digir-dev] Biota DiGIR provider preliminary release; request for testers

[Robert A. M. <ra...@cs...>]

Kimberly Lin (kim...@cs...) has completed a DiGIR provider for
Rob Colwell's Biota Biodiversity Database Manager
(http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/Biota)

It would be a great help to us if people more practiced than are we at
DiGIR would bash on this and report any defects to us.

The raw provider is at url
http://orca.cs.umb.edu:8080/BiotaServerDiGIRProvider/servlet/DiGIRProviderServlet 

and has been registered in the Microsoft UDDI registry. When we move it 
we will change the registry entry. For testing, we
are also operating a stock portal at
http://orca.cs.umb.edu:10080/pres/PresentationServlet?action=home
and this discovers the test resources (using bogus data!). Please select
the Biota Built-In Web Server resource. The Biota 4D Server resource
is disabled.

The provider has a 2-tier architecture. A java servlet appears as the
provider and this servlet is configured to extract data from any Biota
running either the embedded Biota Web Server or the separate 4D Server.
The Biota end comprises Biota 4D methods which will be folded into the
Biota distribution when our testing is complete. Thereafter, any Biota
user need only turn on the chosen Biota web server and register its URL
with the servlet administrator. The servlet can operate anywhere on the
internet, including the Biota user's machine if it supports a servlet
engine.

Thanks for your help!

Bob Morris
Kimberly Lin
-- 
Robert A. Morris
Professor of Computer Science
UMASS-Boston
http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram
phone (+1)617 287 6466