Hi Suresh,

Some answers inline.

Thanks
Amila

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Suresh Marru <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Amila,
>
> When you were upgrading JGlobus to 2.0.6, did you run into issues with
> XSUL dependencies?


I did not run into any specific issues.


> In other words, there were quite a few places where JGlobus dependency was
> there with Airavata modules, from what I can see, you seem to have fixed
> all these and now only limited to GFac, want to confirm it.
>
> Also, I am trying to make a new XSUL release independent of JGlobus. So
> that means HTPPS invokers with GSI Security will not work.


I did not quite understand what you meant by "HTTPS invokers with GSI
security".


> AFAIK, none of this code is in use within Airavata trunk. Do you see any
> potential issues with this change?
>

I also dont foresee any issues, because JGlobus is engaged at GFac level.
But I dont have a clear idea how XSUL is used within Airavata.

Thanks
Amila


>
> Suresh
>
> On Jul 12, 2013, at 9:26 PM, Amila Jayasekara <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Committed initial changes relevant to following features.
> > I did primitive tests on them but certainly they are not sufficient.
> >
> > I will write more unit tests for appropriate scenarios.
> > In the mean time if you encounter any failures/errors please yell at me.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Amila
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Amila Jayasekara <
> [email protected]>wrote:
> >
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> Within next two days I am planning to upgrade JGlobus [1] version to
> >> 2.0.6-RC2. With the upgrade I am also planning to introduce following
> >> functionalities at GFac level.
> >>
> >> 1. Recovery mechanisms at GFac level
> >>          a. Two phase commit
> >>          b. Resuming Job monitoring after Airavata restarts
> >> 2. Job cancellation at GFac API level
> >>
> >> Some of the FAQs are answered below;
> >>
> >> a. Why upgrade ?
> >> We had been using cog-jglobus 1.8.0 for grid communication. This is a
> >> fairly old library and some of the functionalities are not supported.
> >> (E.g:- TLS communication, SHA2 support, Support to handle
> X509Certificates
> >> using Java objects)
> >>
> >> b. Why "RC2" ?
> >> We have tested 2.0.6-RC2 against functionalities we use within GFac. You
> >> may find these test cases in [2].
> >>
> >> c. What are the areas tested ?
> >> Tests cover, myproxy operations, file transfer operations and job
> >> submission. Further these tests were ran against trestles, lonestar and
> >> stampede providers.
> >>
> >> d. From where we going to pick 2.0.6-RC2 jars ?
> >> Since 2.0.6-RC2 is not yet released we will add these jars as file
> system
> >> repo to trunk. Plan is to get JGlobus 2.0.6 release out before 0.9
> release.
> >>
> >> Relevant Jira is in [3].
> >>
> >> Comments/objections/concerns welcome.
> >>
> >> [1] https://github.com/jglobus/JGlobus
> >> [2] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/airavata/sandbox/grid-tools (See
> >> README for details)
> >> [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRAVATA-883
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>

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