ebXML-styled service registry for the International Planetary Data Alliance
Project description
This package provides a service registry for the International Planetary Data Alliance (IPDA). It allows the general public to view service descriptions registered with the IPDA service registry. It also enables users who have permissions to register new services and update existing services.
This registry implementation is targeted for compatibility with the service registry deployed for the Planetary Data System (PDS), which itself is based on the ebXML notion of a registry (as specified by the registry information model).
Although intended for the IPDA web site, it can be deployed to any Plone based site (and is tested with Plone 4).
Installation
Use Buildout with the plone.recipe.zope2instance recipe.
Add ipdasite.services to the list of eggs to install, e.g.:
[buildout] ... eggs = ... ipdasite.servicesTell the plone.recipe.zope2instance recipe to install a ZCML slug:
[instance] recipe = plone.recipe.zope2instance ... zcml = ipdasite.servicesRe-run buildout, e.g. with:
$ ./bin/buildout
You can skip the ZCML slug if you are going to explicitly include the package from another package’s configure.zcml file, which you almost certainly are for this package, since ipdasite.policy includes it as a dependency.
Changelog
What follows is a history of changes from release to release, along with issues addressed and new features in each release.
1.0.8 — Hmm, More Upgrades
This release simplifies the page templates for the various types. It also makes it compatible with Plone 4.3.
1.0.7 — Hmm, Upgrades
This release makes the unit, functional, and integration tests use the standard plone.app.testing layers and fixtures. It also makes this release compatible with Plone 4-latest (4.2.1 as of this writing).
1.0.6 — 1.2 Compatibility
Now compatible with PDS Registry Client 1.2.
1.0.5 — 4.1 Compatibility
Now compatible with Plone 4.1.
1.0.4 — Tools, Not Services
Wedging all the tools that IPDA registered into the ebXML Service Registry model just confused users. So, we keep the model, but downplay the “service” aspect of it and instead call things “Tools”. Services have tool URLs now.
1.0.3 — That Is Not Logical
This release makes sure that logical IDs (or “lids”) throughout the system are kept unique. This should help prevent a certain PDS engineer from re-using the same lid “TBD” over and over, which is incompatible with the PDS Service Registry.
Speaking of, this release also writes all of its data to a PDS Registry Service. Just set the “home” attribute of a Registry instance to the endpoint URL of a PDS Service Registry and all of the service registrations will be synchronized into the PDS Registry Service.
Note that this is not two-way synchronization. Information pre-existing in a PDS Registry Service will be wiped out by this package: services with the same GUIDs will be overwritten in the PDS Registry Service, and any other Services will be purged. This package therefore uses a PDS Registry Services solely as redundant backing store.
1.0.2 — More Fine Tuning
This release adds the slot “interface type” to Services. It also adds three new categories (analysis, dissemination, and visualization).
1.0.1 — Slot Car Racing
This release implements additional ebXML-styled slots needed for the IPDA release of the service registry, including:
interface type (using a controlled vocabulary)
description (but calling it “abstract” to avoid confusion with the Dublin Core “description”)
operating system (also using a controlled vocabulary)
requirements
curating source (institution, contact name, email address, telephone number)
1.0.0 — Initial Implementation
This is an initial release so PDS can try it out.
0.0.0 — Unreleased
There are no releases yet of ipdasite.services.
Issue Tracker
Visit https://oodt.jpl.nasa.gov/jira/browse/PDSEN to find the issue tracker.
Copyright and License
Copyright 2011 by the California Institute of Technology. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
The Software is owned by Caltech/JPL and is protected by United States copyright laws and applicable international treaties and/or conventions. The United States Government may have prior rights to use some or all of the Software as determined under applicable contracts and license agreements with Caltech/JPL.
This software was developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, an operating division of the California Institute of Technology and is not available for use by any person, organization, or other entity without prior, specific written permission.
