Calling BioMoby Web Services

If you are just interested to call a BioMoby Web Service and not to write one by your own, you only need to use one of the following clients. Each client is different in its implementation and addresses different issues. To get more detailed information about the clients please have a look at the documentation of the particular client.

If you are interested in writing your own BioMoby Web Service, please have a look at this tutorial.

If you are interested in writing your own BioMoby Client (as a stand alone application or to integrate it into your web page), please follow this tutorial.

BioMoby Clients

• Dashboard

• You can use dashboard as standalone application via Java Webstart here.
  Dashboard requires writing acces to your local hard drive to cache data.
  
• Dashboard comes with a client to call a BioMoby Web Service. So the first thing which is required is to have dashboard running. If you have already checked out the JMoby code and have set up the system (if not, check how to do that in Eclipse or on console) just type

ant dashboard

        which will start dashboard. How to use the SimpleClient in dashboard can be
        viewed here (as flash movie - it shows the call of a service which was developed
        during the "Writing BioMoby Web Services" tutorial. But it shows the general idea
        of the usage of the Simple Client).

• Taverna

• Taverna is a workflow engine which allows the user to build workflows from several Web Services, and so also for BioMoby Web Services. You find all about the fantastic Taverna here

• Seahawk

• Seahawk is a interactive and intuitive Applet to execute services from data selected from local data or web pages. You can find more about in the documentation, in the publication and of the official seahawk web page.
  

• GBrowse

• One of the first Moby clients. It is web based and has documentation on the web page.

• Simple Command Line Client

• The command line clients comes with the moby checkout and is available after you set up the system (if not, check how to do that in Eclipse or on console). You can find the client in the build/run directory. How to use it can be found here.

• Google Gadgets

• Google Gadgets are nice little 'applications' which allows to add external functionality to a web page. The gadgets can be either executed via the personalized google start page or embedded into ones web page. An overview of all available Gadgets for BioMoby can be found here. If you wish to know more about Google gadgets you can find it here.

As you can see, there are many ways to interact with BioMoby. Feel free to browse between the different clients and test them which will fit for your purpose.