Fwd: [unitsml] WSDL Example for Discussion

[Stuart Chalk <schalk@unf.edu>]

The email exchange below was supposed to go to the unitsml email list rather than just Martin directly.

I would like it included in the asychronous portion of the Feb 12th meeting...

Stuart Chalk, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Department of Chemistry and Physics

University of North Florida

1 UNF Drive

Jacksonville FL 32224

P: 904-620-1938

F: 904-620-1989

E: schalk@unf.edu

W: http://www.unf.edu/coas/chemphys/

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Martin S. Weber" <martin.weber@nist.gov>

Date: February 20, 2009 9:06:06 AM EST

To: "Stuart Chalk" <schalk@unf.edu>

Subject: Re: [unitsml] WSDL Example for Discussion

Stuart,

I by no means wanted to scold you for putting up what you did, if it came across like that I'm sorry. I'm just used to the F/OSS culture and if I see a bug, I report it :) Furthermore I think that having some service up and running is a good tool to help one think...

Quoting "Stuart Chalk" <schalk@unf.edu>:

(...)

In my opinion the discussion here needs to focus on the following

1) What are we trying to accompish with UnitsML by inclusion of the WSDL referencing?

Heh, that one is going to be deep.

2) What parameters are necessary to fulfil the goal in (1)?

The initial discussion focused on wanting to be able to indicate a service that was available to convert a unit.

Thats it.  There was no discussion of using the link in a automated fashion to provide a conversion of the unit

on the fly.  So, for UnitsML 1.0 what do we feel should be the scope of the WSDLConversionFrom element?

I was down with a serious cold, I hope to post a multi-level suggestion of that on the unitsml ml soon. Personally I think it should be as-automated-as-possible and as-easy-usable-by-machines-as-possible, but I'll post more on that later.

By the way, did you realize that you only replied to myself, and not to the unitsml list? Not sure if that was intended because the above question seems to address the TC as a whole.

Regards,

-Martin

Martin

You are right.  From a technical standpoint there are many things that are not perfect with this WSDL service.
For a start this is first I have put up (developed with NetBeans 6.5 which I am still learning) and I am by no way
experienced in Java.  That said, the reason for putting up the WSDL was that is was something to point at
to develop the WSDLConversionFrom element in the UnitsML schema.

In my opinion the discussion here needs to focus on the following
1) What are we trying to accompish with UnitsML by inclusion of the WSDL referencing?
2) What parameters are necessary to fulfil the goal in (1)?

The initial discussion focused on wanting to be able to indicate a service that was available to convert a unit.
Thats it.  There was no discussion of using the link in a automated fashion to provide a conversion of the unit
on the fly.  So, for UnitsML 1.0 what do we feel should be the scope of the WSDLConversionFrom element?

Stuart