Is someone interested in creating an openbabel web service? Let me explain what I mean by that. I Just recently got convinced by the idea of software as a service and the practical elegance of knitting together various parts of software by http requests. Openbabel as a converter tool would just be perfect for such a service.
The service would accept a http post request with the file to convert as post data. The source and target file format is encoded in the URI and the request returns the converted file. As there are already python bindings, a simple python http request handler that provides this service is something I would quite like to implement. Question is if there is someone who would be interested to host such a service? Maybe even as a part of the open babel project? Motivation of course is that one sometimes wants to use openbabel functionality but it is for some reason impossible or impractical to install it or deal with the dependencies. In such an situation the script or application must only be able to issue an http request. I think thats utterly elegant. What do you think? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ OpenBabel-discuss mailing list OpenBabel-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-discuss
