Hi John-
Could the THREDDS catalog be used, then, as a registry for an
arbitrary service architecture (especially, REST and SOAP)? Is it a
product catalog only or can it be used for service discoverability?
Thanks,
-Rob
On Oct 15, 2009, at 8:44 AM, John Caron wrote:
One has to distinguish THREDDS Catalogs from the THREDDS Data Server
(TDS) :
A THREDDS Catalog is an XML file, which can be used by any program
or service to describe online data resources. We enumerated some of
the common service types in the XML schema as a semi-controlled
vocabulary. "semi" because you can place any service type there and
the XML will validate against the schema. The service is used to
construct the URL for a dataset. The service type tells the consumer
of the catalog how to process the dataset URL, eg what protocol to
use.
