Next generation asynchronous webservices #2

Getting back to some webservice stuff (see part #1 of this series)… actually, I’ll use cloud service from now on, since web service is reserved for SOAP/WSDL (see my EMBRACE presentation). Let me present this bit of JavaScript I just ran in Bioclipse2:

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EMBRACE workshop in Uppsala

This Monday and Tuesday I will attend the EMBRACE workshop Understanding, creating and deploying EMBRACE compliant WebServices. I will present there the ongoing work in Bioclipse to support services and web services in particular. The sheets of the presentation will look like:

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Next generation asynchronous webservices

Johannes joined a Bioclipse Workshop a long time ago, and introduced the participants to the idea of using XMPP (aka Jabber) for asynchronous web services. SOAP is commonly user to run webservices over HTTP, but via (SMTP) email and XMPP is possible too (see SOAP over XMPP). Using HTTP as transport layer has problems. The biggest problem, is possibly that HTTP connections are timed out, e.g. by intermediate router. This makes it rather unsuited for long running jobs. Workarounds are easy to come up with, and polling is a common solution.

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Embedding Gists in blogs

Mark pointed me to the embed functionality of Gist, product on GitHub where I host some todo software and a git mirror of CDK 1.2.x.

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Bioclipse2 Scripting #1: from SMILES to a UFF optimized structure in Jmol

After some difficulties this week with making an export of CDK plugins in the Bioclipse2 Cheminformatics feature of with the cdk-eclipse software, I got the following cute Bioclipse2 script up and running:

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Git-Eclipse integration

Recently, I have been blogging about Git:

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Bugzilla Eclipse IDE integration: Mylyn

A new environment means new tools. Bioclipse is Eclipse RCP-based, so colleagues work with Eclipse and are much more into Eclipse too. For example, into Mylyn. Mylyn is a tool to track tasks and assign context to them. The tasks I am interested in (for this blog item), is fixing bug reports. Mylyn is rather suited for this, as it allows linking Java source files to bug reports. With a growing list of projects in my navigator, browsing them becomes difficult because the list is way too long. Mylyn allows me to only show those source files which are actually related to the bug I am fixing. Cool!

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