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The W3C defines a Web service as a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. Web services are frequently just application programming interfaces (API) that can be accessed over a network, such as the Internet, and executed on a remote system hosting the requested services. | |||
SOAP (originally Simple Object Access Protocol) is a protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over computer network, normally using HTTP. Both SMTP and HTTP are valid application layer protocols for SOAP, but HTTP has gained wider acceptance as it works well with today's Internet infrastructure; specifically, SOAP works well with network firewalls. | |||
XML was chosen as the standard message format because of its widespread use by major corporations and open source development efforts. Additionally, a wide variety of freely available tools significantly ease the transition to a SOAP-based implementation. | |||
Web Services uses SOAP (the Simple Object Access Protocol) over HTTP. It interacts with other systems using messages based on Xtensible Markup Language (XML) (http://www.w3.org/XML). A SOAP message can be transferred using almost any application or transport protocol. SOAP uses the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) (http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl) to describe its interface. A SOAP client can read the WSDL at runtime and dynamically select the proper data-encoding scheme and network transfer protocol. SOAP implementations are available for many programming languages, including Perl and Java, which are popular languages among bioinformaticians. | Web Services uses SOAP (the Simple Object Access Protocol) over HTTP. It interacts with other systems using messages based on Xtensible Markup Language (XML) (http://www.w3.org/XML). A SOAP message can be transferred using almost any application or transport protocol. SOAP uses the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) (http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl) to describe its interface. A SOAP client can read the WSDL at runtime and dynamically select the proper data-encoding scheme and network transfer protocol. SOAP implementations are available for many programming languages, including Perl and Java, which are popular languages among bioinformaticians. | ||
Revision as of 00:34, 19 December 2006
Using SOAP/WSDL to access the Biological Databases
Intoduction
SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) (http://www.w3.org/TR/soap) based Web Services technology (http://www.w3.org/ws) has gained much attention as an open standard enabling interoperability among applications across heterogeneous architectures and different networks. When large amounts of data need to be retrieved and analysed, this often proves to be tedious and impractical. Today, biological databases are large collections of data that are relatively difficult to maintain outside the centres and institutions that produce them. These data are traditionally accessed using browser-based World Wide Web interfaces. When large amounts of data need to be retrieved and analysed, this often proves to be tedious and impractical. Web Services technology enables scientists to access these data and analysis applications as if they were installed on their laboratory computers. Similarly, it enables programmers to build complex applications without the need to install and maintain the databases and analysis tools (1) and without having to take on the financial overheads that accompany these. Moreover, Web Services provide easier integration and interoperability between bioinformatics applications and the data they require.
Web service
<html> <a><img src="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Webservices.png" alt=" Web service Core specifications" border="0"></a>
</html> The W3C defines a Web service as a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. Web services are frequently just application programming interfaces (API) that can be accessed over a network, such as the Internet, and executed on a remote system hosting the requested services.
SOAP (originally Simple Object Access Protocol) is a protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over computer network, normally using HTTP. Both SMTP and HTTP are valid application layer protocols for SOAP, but HTTP has gained wider acceptance as it works well with today's Internet infrastructure; specifically, SOAP works well with network firewalls. XML was chosen as the standard message format because of its widespread use by major corporations and open source development efforts. Additionally, a wide variety of freely available tools significantly ease the transition to a SOAP-based implementation.
Web Services uses SOAP (the Simple Object Access Protocol) over HTTP. It interacts with other systems using messages based on Xtensible Markup Language (XML) (http://www.w3.org/XML). A SOAP message can be transferred using almost any application or transport protocol. SOAP uses the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) (http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl) to describe its interface. A SOAP client can read the WSDL at runtime and dynamically select the proper data-encoding scheme and network transfer protocol. SOAP implementations are available for many programming languages, including Perl and Java, which are popular languages among bioinformaticians.
