I assume there are no objections to create a sandbox project to experiment with new libraries.
Suresh On Oct 11, 2012, at 12:03 PM, Suresh Marru <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 * jglobus 1.x version is no longer actively supported as it was superseded by 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/
