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[cellml-discussion] Web services and PMR2


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  • From: tommy.yu at auckland.ac.nz (Tommy Yu)
  • Subject: [cellml-discussion] Web services and PMR2
  • Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:09:31 +1200

Hi,

In the near future I will be building a module that will provide web service
support for PMR2. The protocols I've looked at are SOAP and REST. SOAP
looks fairly standardized and seems very simple to add and the SOAPpy client
(in Python) appears to be straightforward to use, but I can see how people
can find this to be an overly heavy solution.

REST on the other hand doesn't really have much support natively under
Zope/Plone, doesn't really have a standard transport mechanism, and the
standard is basically what the general community and/or implementer decide.
However, most people use JSON as the transport mechanism for data and I would
agree that can allow fairly quick way to implement something to get this
going.

What I want to know is what the community as a whole wants - do one of the
two or both? There is also a tracker item from a while back about this issue
[https://tracker.physiomeproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1909], so please do
refer to it and comment either on this thread and/or that item.

Regards,
Tommy.






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