[Soaplab2-dev] Soaplab and XML tools

[Peter E. <P....@dk...>]

On Wed, 31 May 2006, Mahmut Uludag wrote:

> > When it comes to services and their outputs, one should not forget
> > those tools, that already produce XML according to a defined
> > XML-Schema.
> 
> Can you please give some examples to those tools? Did you mean we should
> use such tools?


We create such tools here (e.g. 
http://genome.dkfz-heidelberg.de/menu/biounit/dev.shtml#task), and
there are other bioinformatics groups, having such tools, too
(e.g. http://hobit.gsf.de/wiki/display/wiki/Services).

Our tools create XML output and there is a XML-Schema describing their
output.

I patched the CVS-Soaplab, to enable it for servicing these tools.

Recently, I created a branch in the CVS repository of Soaplab 
"branch-soaplab-dkfz-1", where I am currently in the process of
committing my modifications. See the file "ChangeLog.branch-dkfz-1"
for details.

My greatest concern with the original Soaplab was the output WSDL
file. In my experiments, it was hardly usable with other toolkits than
Axis. I tried gSoap (C++), VisualStudio.NET and Soap::Lite (Perl).

To see a WSDL file for an XML output tool from my patched Soaplab,
follow http://genome.dkfz-heidelberg.de/menu/hobit/embapps/wsdl/domainsweep.wsdl
(search for "taskresult").


Kind regards,

     Peter