Dear members of the openEHR community, Having reached a point where project Bosphorus has reached a functional state, we have deployed and experimental web service under Opereffa's current server.
The web service exposes the archetype parser functionality of Thomas Beale's Eiffel code base with XML and JSON output. There is a simple web application at http://opereffa.chime.ucl.ac.uk/bosphorus/ which uses this web service to display XML and JSON output. The web service is as simple as possible to use: calling http://opereffa.chime.ucl.ac.uk/bosphorus/resteasy/openehr/getarchetypeslistreturns an XML list of the archetypes in repository, and calling http://opereffa.chime.ucl.ac.uk/bosphorus/resteasy/openehr/getarchetypewith the archetype name as the parameter such as: http://opereffa.chime.ucl.ac.uk/bosphorus/resteasy/openehr/getarchetype?archetypeName=openEHR-EHR-CLUSTER.case_identification.v1returns the XML output. Simply changing the URLS to http://opereffa.chime.ucl.ac.uk/bosphorus/resteasy/openehr/getarchetypeslistjsonand http://opereffa.chime.ucl.ac.uk/bosphorus/resteasy/openehr/getarchetypejsonallows access to JSON output. There are known issues in the XML output, which we are fixing at the moment, but we felt that the current state of the code is capable enough to share with the community, to demonstrate the idea of turning key openEHR infrastructure functionality into web services. Thanks to functionality of the Eiffel reference implementation, this web service handles the processing of ADL 1.5 specific features and its XML output is valid according to published XML schemas (version 1.0.1). Please note that the XML or JSON output is only data, therefore its content must be placed into an AOM implementation to become a complete parser output, and we look forward to hearing from implementers, especially in the Java space to collaborate on this. In the near future, we are going to be extending the set of services, and we would be glad to hear about your ideas for new web services in the tooling space. The packaging and release of code will follow soon, but it will take time since Bosphorus has a fairly complicated development setup, requiring Java, C/C++ and Eiffel development setups to be configured jointly. The reference deployment of the web service is therefore the most practical way of experimenting with functionality. There are issues related to serialization of various AOM items, and it you notice errors in the XML output, please let us know so that we can fix them. We would like to thank Thomas Beale of Ocean Informatics for providing access to his Eiffel source code and his contributions to this work, which enables us to share our work with the community. Kind regards Seref Arikan & Professor David Ingram, UCL, CHIME -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20111115/f9b1e3c1/attachment.html>
