On 4/13/10 5:02 AM, Christian Meisenbichler wrote: > 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?
I can probably provide the hosting. We're already doing a little bit of this with http://depict.emolecules.com/, which is just a very thin front-end for OpenBabels -gen2D service, combined with our GIF generator. We are also hosting http://www.opensmiles.org/. It doesn't have to be exclusive either, it would be nice if there were "mirror" sites that all ran one set of code from the SVN or git repository. Craig ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
