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/
