...and if it seems odd to anyone following this thread that the developers of Nirvana SRB would suggest we achieve this integration by using the filesystem emulation provided by Nirvana SRB, which in turn uses the Honeycomb API, know that I definitely did point out that irony to them.
However, according to these developers, the Nirvana and SDSC SRB APIs differ enough that that is the only way to do this without recoding the DSpace bitstream storage manager. Disappointing? Yeah. So am I understanding correctly that in future versions of DSpace, support for CAS systems and the like would be done in DSpace? I.e. we might expect there to be direct Honeycomb, EMC Celera, iRODS, etc support right within DSpace? We're trying to see the roadmap here. c On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 10:46 -0400, Blanco, Jose wrote: > We just had a phone conference with Sun and the developer for the > commercial version of SRB at Nirvana ( Tino ) and were told that the > commercial version of SRB they have developed is not the same as the > academic SRB. One thing they have developed is file system based SRB > which *should* work, and we are going to try it out. > > Thanks for this information! > > Jose > > -----Original Message----- > From: MacKenzie Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 10:37 AM > To: Blanco, Jose > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Academic SRB support > > Hi Jose, > > I haven't gotten the official story from SDSC, but I do know that their > attention has shifted to iRODS as the next generation storage > architecture for long-term data management. iRODS will be 100% open > source software (no more dual license) which will be easier for the > community to deal with. > > My understanding is that the commercial (Nirvana) and non-commercial > (plain SRB) are actually the same thing... they just have dual license > arrangement for the codebase. So the API that Sun develops *should* also > work for your plain vanilla SRB instance too. You can verify that with > the SDSC folks (or I can ask them). > > The DSpace work that we've done at MIT was for the old non-commercial > SRB, and we recently got the jargon client for iRODS, so those should be > tested with the 1.4.x and 1.5 releases. > > MacKenzie > > I wonder if any one has heard if the academic SRB ( non-commercial ) > > is going to be discontinued? We have been discussing using a > > Honeycomb server for bit storage, and they have informed us that the > > academic SRB is going to be discontinued, so they are not interested > > in developing an API for it. They are working on developing a > > commercial Nirvana SRB API. I'm assuming that the configurable SRB > > coming out in a future release of Dspace is the academic? > > > > http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/PluggableStorage ? > > > > Thank you! > > Jose > > > -- > MacKenzie Smith > Associate Director for Technology > MIT Libraries > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
