Was discussing this topic with Ola and we both agreed we should open it 
up for discussion to OpenTox developers.  Your feedback to Ola very welcome!

Barry


On 20 feb 2011, at 19.18, Barry Hardy wrote:

>  Thanks Ola.
>
>  I had a thought/question - you/Egon made initial progress on getting
>  OpenTox services talking to Bioclipse client; what about the reverse
>  problem: what would be needed for data, algs, models in Bioclipse to
>  talk with OpenTox?

Hi,

Me and Lars at AZ thought about it too and agreed it would be nice 
project. However I think it requires some work, but I don´t know the 
status of the latest OpenTox frameworks for publishing models online. 
Are there any SDKs available for this? The AMBIT server seems more a 
proof-of-concept than an actual framework to use (needs to be recompiled 
for adding services). ToxOtis is more for clients if I understand it 
correctly. Does it exist some thing like SADI has for building services 
(http://sadiframework.org/content/getting-involved/)? A plugin for 
Protege or Java service skeleton would be very nice to have... The best 
way would be if it would be possible to drop services into a container 
(such as copying a WAR file into tomcat) and the application server 
would set up the rest for you. If nothing like this exist then I propose 
a solution based on OSGi for dynamically adding models to a running 
server instance. Maybe you can elaborate on the current status of things?

Cheers,

/Ola