- From: Stian Soiland <ssoiland@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:40:20 +0100
- To: public-semweb-lifesci <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
On 12 Jul 2007, at 17:22, Roderic Page wrote: > > So, you need software that resolves the LSID and retrieves the > associated data or metadata. There are several kits that will do > this right now (the SourceForge site has Java and Perl code, and I > have a PHP client kicking around). LSIDs can be a bit complicated, > but at least there is a very explicit protocol for getting the > metadata (you don't have to guess, it tells you exactly how to > retrieve it). So what is the advantage of doing all of this effort with this still- early-release software instead of using a well-tested HTTP client or library, like curl? Isn't half of this just reinventing the wheel, when a RESTful webservice knocked up from scratched in a few hours would do the same job, if not better? -- Stian Soiland, myGrid team School of Computer Science The University of Manchester http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~ssoiland/
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