Re: [cam] accessing registries

[Farrukh Najmi <Farrukh.Najmi@Sun.COM>]

Duane Nickull wrote:

>
> Martin:
>
> Comments inline:
>
> martin.me.roberts@bt.com wrote:
>
>> One current weakness in the CAM spec is accessing registry data.  
>> There does not seem to be a standard for this access or a description 
>> of the sort of data that might be retrieved from a registry.
>>
> Yes there is.  The ebXML Registy Services Specification (RSS) 
> describes this very clearly.

+1 Just look at the QueryManager's getRegistryObject, getRepositoryItem 
operations. Also look at the HTTP interface and finally look at the SQL 
or Filter query interface as desribed by AdhocQueryRequest.

>
>> I am looking to add some form of standard description of registries 
>> to the registry section so that at minimum a processor would know 
>> what to call to retrieve a UID from a name and vice versa.
>
Not sure what UID is but to get from a UUID to a name you do the 
folowing query using AdhocQueryRequest to registry:

SELECT * from RegistryObject o, Name n WHERE n.parent=o.id AND o.id = 
<specified uuid>

>>
>> Any suggestions?  I have some but would rather we had some wider input.
>>
>> I want this to work with remote registries and simple XML files.
>>
> I'll get a test registry up and give you the client package to test 
> against it.

That would be verfy useful.

Alternatively you could also operate you own test registry by 
downloading the open source freebXML Registry from:

http://ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net

Thanks and good luck Martin.

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Regards,
Farrukh