Hi Dirk, Thank you for your question about Taverna and apologies for not responding to your earlier request.
Taverna is a core product of the myGrid team and has acquired funding until 2013. In addition we are always seeking more funding and the project eader - Professor Carole Goble - has an excellent track record with regards to funding and successful research collaborations. Longer term plans beyond the year are always difficult but here are a list of things we are planning or looking into: 1) Transition to the next generation workbench (eclipse based) being the defacto workbench - base on Direct Manipulation UI research 2) High performance Taverna Server (scalability, proven integration with different security frameworks) 3) Enterprise tooling for the Taverna Server (load balancing across clusters) 4) Taverna and Cloud integration (e.g. using Taverna to deploy and interact with a cloud configuration, environment bootstrapping in the workflow or workflows environment). 5) Semantic support (e.g. enforcing ontological assertions about services and restricting inputs based upon regular expressions in schemas) 6) Integration with resourecs over SSH (via the ARC plugin) 7) Seamless integration with service catalogs (e.g. BioCatalogue) 8) Seamless Integration with data and workflow repositories 9) Agreed and compatible OSGi bundling strategy with other projects (e.g CIShell, BioEclipse, VBrowser) 10) REST Support 11) Open Linked Data support 12) Best of breed support and integration for white box, grey box and black box provenance 13) Different modes of operation (data centric, process centric, comad approaches) 14) Integrating best practice from the Service Orientated Architecture movement 15) Integrated workflow patterns 16) Experiment with new user interaction platforms (Mobile, Tablet, Surface). The roadmap on the Taverna site will be updated soon to reflect these areas of development. Taverna has been going for at least eight years and we are technically, tactically and strategically trying to advance is and its use to create a great product and platform that is of use in different domains and in different deployment scenarios. We take our user community very seriously and are (usually ;-) ) very responsive to issues. If you would like to talk further or there was any feature/issue in particular you want to know about please let us know. Best Regards, Shoaib Technical Project Manager, myGrid On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Dirk Gorissen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. > > First of all congratulations with a very nice (and open) piece of software. > > I sent this message the the [email protected] address but did not get a > reply, so I will try here. > > I am part of a aerospace research project at Soton and we are in need of a > workflow engine to underlie our software stack. I am evaluating different > engines and Taverna is one of them. > > I wanted to ask about the longer term plans of Taverna. The roadmap covers > this year but is there an estimate how long funding will continue and what > will happen when funding ceases? If we decide to build our toolchain around > Taverna it would be good if the project is still actively developed 3 years > down the line. > > Also, if anybody is aware of any other uses of Taverna in more engineering > oriented projects (vs Bioinformatics and related fields) that would also be > interesting to hear. > > Many thanks, > > Kind regards, > > Dirk > -- > Dirk Gorissen > Postdoctoral Researcher > Computational Engineering and Design Research Group > Room 2041, Building 25, Highfield Campus > School of Engineering Sciences > University of Southampton > Tel: +44-2380-598-369 > E-mail: [email protected] > Web: http://www.dirkgorissen.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > taverna-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > Web site: http://www.taverna.org.uk > Mailing lists: http://www.taverna.org.uk/taverna-mailing-lists/ > Developers Guide: http://www.mygrid.org.uk/tools/developer-information > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ taverna-hackers mailing list [email protected] Web site: http://www.taverna.org.uk Mailing lists: http://www.taverna.org.uk/taverna-mailing-lists/ Developers Guide: http://www.mygrid.org.uk/tools/developer-information
