On Jan 16, 2012, at 9:07 AM, "Mattmann, Chris A (388J)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi BW, > > On Jan 15, 2012, at 10:44 PM, B W wrote: >>> >>> But, what predicates the use of CAS over a Profile Service? > > Read only versus Read/Write. Profile Servers, Product Servers, > Query Services, and the like are information integration components > that federate distributed, virtual data systems. They don't put any > data back in. CAS not only reads from underlying data sources, > and queries them, but it writes back into them too. Ok. Thx. So, would a primary use of CAS be workflow staging to productize a product to a new level or subset? What about replicating? > >> >> So, if the query is first injected in a web-grid Profile Service? > > Not always, depends on how you entered the system, some folks > go to CAS directly. > > Cheers, > Chris > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. > Senior Computer Scientist > NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA > Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 > Email: [email protected] > WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department > University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >
