Dev's. Currently Airavata is relying on jglobus 1.8 for Grid interactions. The library works ok but has been with some limitations:
* jglobus 1.x version is no longer actively supported as it was superseded by jglobus 2.0 effort [1] * many dependencies of 1.x are not in maven central and it looks like the time spent on making them all available is not worthwhile. jglobus 2.x has limited dependencies and many are in maven central. * jglobus1.x is monolithic with all security, file transfer and job management bundled together. Jglobus2.0 refactored these into separate libraries which will be useful for Airavata going forward. * Airavata should take advantage of all the GRAM protocol state changes and also would need to local job id like features. If there are are objections, I would like to create a sandbox area for and test the jglobus2.0. If it works well, then we will have some refactoring to do in gfac, but first step is to test the new libraries. Any comments or suggestions? Suresh [1] - http://www.globus.org/toolkit/jglobus/
