#32 enable REST services integration with the registry

[luisBermudez]

Allow, from VINE to talk SOAP services to the registry to:
- get list of all ontologies: getAllOntologies()
- get list of all mappings: getAllMappings()
- get ontology: getOntology(uri)
- submit mapping ontology: putMapping(uri, RDF, userId,userPassword)
- open mapping ontology: openMapping (uri)

[luisBermudez]

opening files could be handle with the wizards: org.mmi.vine.wizard.
Invoking SOAP services requires of AXIS http://ws.apache.org/axis/
user guide shows how to invoke a SOAP service within JAVA: http://ws.apache.org/axis/java/user-guide.html

[Carlos Rueda]

Can you remind me what openMapping(uri) should do that it's not done by getOntology(uri) ?

[Carlos Rueda]

Re: putMapping(uri, RDF, userId,userPassword)

Note: the registry uses the base URI indicated in the RDF; so, how should the given uri parameter be handled?
1- No, just remove the parameter, and keep using the internal base URI.
2- Ignore the URI inside RDF and use the given parameter.
3- ?

[Carlos Rueda]

The registry http://mmisw.org:9600/regtest/services/sparql?wsdl now provides the following operations:

- getAllOntologies()
- getAllMappings() --> always empty for now
- getOntology(uri)
- putMapping(uri, RDF, userId,userPassword)

Tested with Oxygen.

I'm now doing preliminary client tests using axis.

[Carlos Rueda]

Implemented:

- new packages
org.mmi.vine.registry - main package with IRegistry interface
org.mmi.vine.registry.soap - SOAP implementation

- Added axis libraries in lib/

- new build.xml to create the bindings (NOTE: already created and checked in)
and to test the connection:
ant soap-test

NOTE: FIXME: the same test does NOT run from within Eclipse -- Perhaps a library conflict.

Luis: can you take a look? next step is to start using this in the affected parts of Vine.

[Carlos Rueda]

We need to speak REST (instead of SOAP), because we're going to use the bioportal framework, which uses RESTful based services.

[luisBermudez]

Good !

What is the REST endpoint and the descriptions of the services ?

so we need to remove the axis libraries !