Martin’s presentation of the advantages, followed by discouragement from using it. Ant and Maven are similar. What Maven does in addition is that it makes project dependencies and repositories. Therefore you can define the library that you code is using without having the library downloaded, you simply refer to it. it is then found and [...]
Used to be only selected classes were documented, but now all classes are documented and it is confusing. Martin suggests re-documenting only those classes that are USED by developers. Wendy’s experience was telling: she discovered CentralImpl after TWO MONTHS of studying the documentation! We need to document only the core classes and somehow provide a [...]
Start with a more detailed intro to Moby namespaces and datatypes More detailed introduction to Dashboard then split into Perl and Java streams Errors: if the path to the project is too long then javadoc fails in ant. A code release should include a snapshot of the cache of the registry for Dashboard. Martin will [...]
Mark should see how difficult it is to do this… sometimes they can be empty…
Versioning – Add to the registry API a way to determine the version of code it is running. How to test services – sample input and output will be part of service-provider’s RDF – methods for testing services will become part of jMoby API – will also have a panel in Dashboard (?) – INB [...]
Registry issues: Need a separate mailing list for Registry API updates? Synchronization of registries needs to be formalized – Andreas: Master & Secondary sync example – LSID based – filters + or – provides rules to exclude/include various services as they come in for sync – Martin suggests adding this as a feature to jMoby [...]
In attendance: Mark, Eddie, Wendy, Richard, Ivan, Andreas, Paul, Martin, Mylah We started with jokes about the danger of having the core Moby developers in the same room of a brick hospital built on top of a geological fault… Issues that came up in introductory presentations: Atrtribution of data to providers – set logo? new [...]
In attendance: Mark, Eddie, Wendy, Richard, Ivan, Andreas, Paul, Martin, Mylah We started with jokes about the danger of having the core Moby developers in the same room of a brick hospital built on top of a geological fault… Issues that come up: Atrtribution of data to providers