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Services and softwares used in the exercises
Traditional paste-and-click services
SOAP based Web Services
Softwares
- SoapUI, a desktop application for inspecting, invoking and testing
of Web Services over HTTP. We have found it very useful in our work;
it allows to investigate a new Web Service quickly,
getting to understand the operations it contains, the input it expects
and the output it produces. SoapUI can be downloaded free of charge from
http://www.soapui.org/.
The installation is very simple (it needs at least Java 1.5).
- SOAP::Lite, a collection of Perl modules which provides a simple and
lightweight interface to SOAP, both on client and server side. It
can be downloaded free of charge from
http://www.soaplite.com/.
It should install smoothly on top of any modern Perl installation.
This module makes it possible to call Web Services from Perl scripts,
as in the Exercise 2.
- TAVERNA, a graphical user interface to Web Services (and a lot
of other functionality). It can be downloaded free of charge from
http://taverna.sourceforge.net/
Example Perl script
The script simple.pl calls the
GenomeAtlas Web Service and prints the
output proteome in FASTA.
The decision to use Perl for accessing Web services was based on local
CBS considerations. SOAP support is also implemented in Java, Python,
C++ etc.
CONTACT
Ole Lund,
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