Hello Ray, Very fascinating trouble indeed, Can we make the RockCrusher answer this? Sorry pun intended.
If I understood what you are trying to achieve, Stanbol (or Stanbol-Rave combination) might be a better fit, I say this simple because Airavata as of today doesn't deal directly with Semantic Technologies or Ontologies and might be a hard fit into the mix. In the pre-apache days, Airavata has some experimental student projects to overlay OWL on Airavata XBaya but they did not make it into main code base. Also there are research groups who study Semantic integration in service based architectures like the WSDL-S advocacy groups. Back to your trouble, in this case you may not be comparing apple vs oranges but certainly not oranges vs oranges (may be oranges and grapefruit). Even otherwise, there are numerous examples of redundant framework and implementations (like Axis2 and CXF). From an apache standpoint, its totally fine to have them co-exist as long as community is rallying behind. Otherwise they naturally weed out. I do not think any project will be averse to re-use, but they need a interesting and motivated contributors like yourself to champion integration. If you look at many ASF projects, a code gets bootstrapped, a community is formed around it, from there on, code follows community not other way around. So the way to look at this problem is there are two distinct communities doing different things with identical software tools. This is totally ok. But if there are two communities doing the same thing but with two different tools, they need to be talking to each other. We will appreciate if you can help bridge such communities. BTW, I am curious to learn about your progress on the ComputeFactory integrations, how did that go? anything we can help? Suresh On May 30, 2013, at 6:45 PM, Ray Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > HI > > I have a very troubling question for myself. I do not wish to be ungracious > - my question is meant only with good intention. I probably am missing the > intuitive answer to my question. > > Background: > My interests can be found at http://aurorae-tech.appspot.com > > I am considering the creation of a system as i am beginning to describe in > the attached. > I definitely do not wish to create my own framework. But, getting reasonably > skilled at a framework represents a considerable learning curve. > > Please only take a moment of your time to consider my question. I continue > to study and in the next near time frame i may be able to answer my own > question. > > Thank you very much. > > p.s. for an anecdote of the project name, read > http://aurorae-wiki.appspot.com/Rationale_and_expectations > <RockCrusher.pdf>
