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Bioinformatic Web Applications must implement Web Services.
Small effort to implement them, and high payoffs in terms
of sharing, collaboration, and knowledge integration.
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Use REST, XML-RPC, SOAP, or the [RPC flavor of the month]. Just
keep them nice and simple, your fellow researchers will
love you for that.
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REST is the simplest way to share. We've been doing it since
the CGI spec appeared. No spec on how to represent
the returned data.
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XML-RPC is simple, but data with complex structure might not be easy to
represent.
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SOAP is a more complex, but it gives you more flexibility (XML
Schemas, RPC and Document Literal, WSDL, Service redirection, etc.)
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Plan on synchronous and asynchronous access to improve performance.
Consider XML Spaces and similar Tuple/Data Spaces.
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Use the MDB Web Services. Use the MDB Web Services. Use the MDB Web
Services...
