26 - April 2007, New Dheli
PILAR GALINDOSoftware Developer
EMMA LUCIA RIVERAColombia BCH Manager
Alexander von Humboldt Institute
Bogotá, Colombia
Progress and technical issues related to implementation of the Colombian BCH
CONTENT
•BCH: Biosafety Project - WB-GEF-Colombian Government
•Colombia BCH advances
•Constraints on making information available
Progress and technical issues related to implementation of the Colombian BCH
“Capacity strengthening for the Implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in Colombia”
Project components • Strengthening the legislative framework and operational mechanisms for
Biosafety management in Colombia.
• Capacity strengthening and establishment of an operational system for risk
assessment and monitoring.
• Establishment of the Biosafety Database System and BCH Mechanism in Colombia.
• Centers of Excellence for Research, Risk Assessment and Monitoring.
MAVDT, MADR, MPS, MCIT, DNP, ICA, INVIMA, COLCIENCIAS, CIAT, IAvH
Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development Ministry of Social Protection MPSMinistry of Agriculture and Rural Development Farming Colombian InstituteMinistry of Trade, Industry and Tourism Institute for Monitoring Medicines and Foods Ministry of External Relations (CP Focal Point) International Center for Tropical AgricultureAlexander von Humboldt Institute National Department of PlanningColombian Institute for the Development of Science and Technology "Francisco Jose de Caldas”
BCH Component in the Project WB-GEF-Colombian Government*
Progress and technical issues related to implementation of the Colombian BCH
CONTENT
•BCH Objective in the Project WB-GEF-Colombian Government
•Colombia BCH characteristics
•Constraints on making information available
Colombian BCH
To choose the Nationals Authorized Users for each
CNA
To establish infrastructure and human team.AvHI as NFP
To design the web site and to define services according to national needs
To establish alliance with other information systems available in Colombia like CHM and BIS
To identify the available information and its conditions
Activities done to put the Colombian BCH on line
To establish communication with Competent National Authorities - CNA
Workshop in Curitiba(March 2006)
Workshop in Colombia(Aug 2006)
UNEP-GEF Regional specialist for Latin-
American
Colombian BCH: http://www.bch.org.co
-Cartagena Protocol-Biosafety in Colombia-Competent National Authorities-National legislation-Projects-News-WB-GEF- project components-Researchers catalog-Content management
-Among others…
What do we use on the development process?
Colombian BCH
Integrated Development Environment: debugging, project management, building and deployingYou can use also: NetBeans, JBuilder, WebSphere Studio or JDeveloper
Graphic design tool to create web sites / Internet applicationsYou can use also: FrontPage
Visual Data base administration: create backups, administrate data bases, change tables and attributes, establish relational rules, etc.You can use also: MySQL, Sybase Application server to run the application and make it available through the web
Where the Colombian BCH runs?
Linux server with Red hat distribution JBoss as Application server PostgreSQL as Data base manager JAVA as programming language: JSP and Servlets JDBC access AXIS Java API to use the WebService
Colombian BCH
Common Formats are currently available in Spanish, ready to be used by the Competent National Authorities
Human team:• Software developer• Coordinator• National Biosafety Project
Hardware infrastructure:•Server•PC for development and testing process•AvHI Data Center
Time:•1 year, 1/2
Resources needed
It was developed on Java using the Model View Controller pattern, where:
- The Controller is in charge of receiving the entry events and to manage the application flow. This delegates the HTTP requests to the proper manager- The Model represent the BCH’s logic - The View is composed of JSPs, which shows the HTML forms and data
Colombian BCH
Application server
PostgreSQL
Data Base Connection
It works through Data Access Object (DAO) concept to:• To get and encapsulate the data source access, unlinking
the BCH logic from data• The DAO establishes the connection with the DB Manager
to get and keep the data
DAO allows:• To create reusable implementations• To give installation flexibility/configuration• To reduce the complexity of the BCH logic implementation
But…• It increases application design complexity, since it is
necessary to create more classes
Web Service comunication
It has established communication with Central BCHset cla=C:/jboss-4.0.2/server/default/deploy/axis-1_4/lib/
1. java -cp %cla%/axis.jar; %cla%/log4j-1.2.8.jar; %cla%/saaj.jar; %cla%/wsdl4j-1.5.1.jar; %cla%/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar; %cla%/commons-discovery-.2.jar; %cla%/log4j.properties; %cla%/jaxrpc.jar
org.apache.axis.wsdl.WSDL2Java
http://bchtraining.biodiv.org/service/3.0/service.asmx?WSDL
AXIS component to understand WSDL files
AXIS: Apache Extensible Interaction System - OpenSource implementation of SOAP which provides web service toolsSOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol
Web-Service Description Language, URI which enables the Central BCH to publish its WebService, and allows the clients to call its methods/operations
Colombian BCH
When you run this instruction you get this classes:
User roles
Record states
Registration process
Central BCH
Progress and technical issues related to implementation of the national BCH
CONTENT
•BCH Objective in the Project WB-GEF-Colombian Government
•Useful features in the BCH Central Portal
•Constraints on making information available
There is a lack of documentation to register Information (User level)
• Sometimes it is difficult to know which information has to be put in each category of information.
• Is difficult to find information of filled formats (as examples) in some categories of information
Constrains on making information available
There is a lack of documentation for the software developers
• There is no way to reach to documentation page:http://bch.biodiv.org/help/interoperability/webservice3/default.shtml
Constrains on making information available
There is a lack of documentation for the software developers:(Programmer level):
A software developer doesn’t know the steps that he has to implement. To register a Law, you have to register first the National Competent Authority AND keep the ID that you give to it, link this with the law register. We needs the game rules.
Constrains on making information available
Law WS registration
Step1: National Competent Authority NCA - WS registration
ID - NCA
Step2: Law - WS registration
A country can’t assume that costs
There is a lack of documentation for the software developers:(Programmer level):
The XSD published for the Web Services don't match with the XML files you have to send. It is difficult to know what to write on the XML tags for sending them.
Constrains on making information available
(cont): There is a lack of documentation for the software developer
• The description of the mechanisms for interoperability with the BCH is not very clear
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <query>
<conditions> <is refID="authority" /> <relates property ="government" refID="co"/> </conditions></query>
Constrains on making information available
The XSD does not exist to create this file. Colombia doesn’t find this sintaxis through the Central Portal, but with the direct help of the UNEP-GEF.
There is a lack to register Information:
•In the Central Portal BCH there is more than one unique identifier for the same LMO (Example). In the OECD page there is only one register for each LMO.
Constrains on making information available
Mechanism for avoiding the duplication of registers of new LMO´s unique identifier, by giving the existing list for selection and not giving the possibility of new text entry.
There is a lack of documentation for the software developers:(Programmer level):
• There are different Web Services versions and the toolkit does not show the differences between them.
• There is not a standardized database model to help avoid misunderstandings of the software developers.
Constrains on making information available
There are inconsistencies in the documentation:
•Sometimes the BCH give a guide to build the information IDs (http://bch.biodiv.org/help/interoperability/webservice3/methods/register.shtml), but it doesn’t give a standard route
“The IDs must be universally unique. We encourage organization to include their domain name in the IDs (e.g. http://www.gov.zz/decision/4323 or http://www.gov.zz/870F72A0-BD9F-4d71-9983-34FAEAD29399)”.
Constrains on making information available
There is a lack of tools for implementation of the national application with its requirements:
•The Central Portal BCH offers the Thesaurus XML files for building the formats and each term has associated an identifier (A1DB53EB-7015-4f60-910C-F226B012A37C). It is not clear how this identifier was built, neither if this identifier should be used in the national applications.
Constrains on making information available
Detailed documentationTo improve the Central BCH forums
Conclusions
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Multiple register for the same Unique IdentifierIn Central Portal BCH
