[ome-devel] OMERO web services

[josh.moore at gmx.de]

Woodbridge, Mark R writes:
 > Hi,

Hi Mark.

 > We're considering writing a servlet to provide a simple generic JSON/XML
 > interface to a subset of the functionality of the new OMERO server so
 > that we can easily incorporate images and metadata into a rich client
 > (Ajax) application.
 > 
 > Has anyone tried anything like this?

I'll let the web-gurus amongst us answer, but there is definitely some
ajax'ing going on. Can you tell us what framework(s) you are or are
planning to use?

 > A related question for the OMERO developers: is Python the recommended
 > language for interfacing with the ICE-based server? Or will Java be
 > equally usable in the Beta4 release?

Python and Java are both equally supported, and so the choice is
yours. C++ is also as feature complete and will be usuable in 4.0, but
list readers will have noticed that compiling C++ is less
straight-forward. We hope to have this improved for 4.1 later this
Spring.

Best wishes,
~Josh.