PoC Web Services deployment and practicalities
Disclaimer:
The information here is preliminary and not (yet) officially endorsed
by the VLeIT team. Use this information at your own risk.
This is an induction event for our scientific programmers.
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| When | Tuesday, 21 February, 2006 |
| Time | 1400 hrs CET
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| Where | NIKHEF, Amsterdam, room H3.31 |
| Registration | not required |
Agenda
- Services intro [David Groep]
- Experience deploying a service [Machiel Jansen]
- Do & don't's, Hosting environment [David Groep]
- Discussion (and many throughout the program)
Points for discussion, Questions to be answered:
- Do I need more then SOAP
- What the &^%#$&^%#$ is the difference between Web and Grid services
- Do I need stateful web services
- Should I service-ify everything
- What are the miminal things that I need to make my service VL-e compatible (WSDL?, GSI-auth?, GT4 (so no perl)?, GSI-SOAP)
- Interface languages, what is supported ?
- Any other question anyone can come up with
Presentations on WS (and -deployment)
Related presentations from external sources:
More presentations can be found in the
EGEE NA3 training archive,
in the modules on SOAP, Web Services, WSDL and SOAs.
WSDL examples
These examples use the RPC/encoded style, and have been shown to
work with implementations in Java (Axis 1.2) or SOAPpy.
gLite WDSL is (C) the EGEE Consortium, 2004-2006. SaraGridServiceLCG WSDL by Bart Heupers.
The Cape Clear SOA Editor was once available from here as "SOAEditor.exe". Sorry, it now seems
to be replaces by a 15-day demo of the full thing.
Notes and caveats on web services