Web service standards question

[Tara Murphy]

Hi,

thank you Guy (and others) for all the useful information and pointers  -
you raised a few issues I hadn't thought of - it will be vey useful for me
and the other ATNF VO people.

Tara


> the "standard interfaces" (renamed at yesterday's meeting to "VObs Support
> Interfaces") are preliminary. The doc on the IVO wiki-web is actually an
> internal draft for the working group. Thus, expect most details to change
> before it becomes a recommendation.  Expect something more stable in 3Q2004.
>
> Yesterday, the discussion at the interop meeting concluded that, of the
> support interfaces,
>
>  - the one that emits VOResources will be optional
>
>  - the heartbeat one will be mandatory
>
>  - the log-harvesting one will be optional
>
> VOTable is an IVOA standard but it isn't _prescribed_ for all web services. If
> you want to build a service that emits a different kind of table, that's up to
> you. You need to judge for yourself which format interoperates better.
>
> The GWS session at the curernt interop meeting also supported in outline the
> proposals for asynchronous activities and single-sign-on authentication. It
> looks like these don't apply to your service, but you might like to consider
> them for other services.  These are initial, internal drafts, so expect many
> details to change.
>
> You need to check out the registry-metadata spec's so that you can register
> your service in an IVO resource-registry.
>
> Units are considered in the data-model group. Some of their output may be
> relevant to your unit-conversion service.
>
> Finally, we're considering (discussion on Friday) prescribing the WS-I profile
> for basic SOAP. You might find it useful to download the conformance-testing
> tools from the WS-I organization's site and check out your messages.
>
> This isn't a definitive list of standards.
>
> Cheers,
> Guy
>
> On Wed, 26 May 2004, Tara Murphy wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I have built a demonstrator web service to provide unit conversion
> > functionality (from the AIPS++ Quanta module).
> > This is part of the ATNF VO effort, and as the aim is to be VO-compatible,
> > I was wondering what standards I should be following at this stage.
> >
> > The two areas I'm aware of are the StandardInterfaces document and
> > VOTable. The service can take and return VOTables, so I think it is ok in
> > that respect. Am I right in thinking the Standard Interfaces are still very
> > much under development (and maybe not worth worrying about at this
> > stage?)
> >
> > It would be good if somebody could summarise what else (if anything) I
> > need to be thinking about.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Tara
> >
> > -----
> > Tara Murphy
> > Postdoctoral Scientist
> >
> > Australia Telescope National Facility
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> >
> >
>
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