[drmaa-wg] PHP binding

[Andre Merzky]

Hi Jose, 

The URL should be:
http://savannah.cern.ch/projects/gridgramm/
                               ^

One question: are you considering other functionality 
than Job Submission (== DRMAA) as well?  

Cheers, Andre.


PS: Yeah, I know, I should keep 'subtle' advertisements 
    for SAGA to the our own list ;-)



Quoting [Jose R Valverde] (Mar 23 2006):
> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:55:05 +0100 (CET)
> From: Jose R Valverde <txomsy at yahoo.es>
> Subject: [drmaa-wg] PHP binding
> To: drmaa-wg at ggf.org
> 
> We are working in development of web based services
> using PHP here. Our work relies mainly on using Grid
> technology as the back end (we are on EGEE), but we
> also have to develop for queueing systems.
> 
> As such, DRMAA is a natural choice to build our
> applications. This leads me to the questions:
> 
>     - is there any PHP binding definition?
>         After consulting the list archives I gather
> the answer is "No".
> 
>     - is there anybody working on defining a DRMAA PHP
> binding?
>         Again, it seems that the answer is "No", but
> I'd like to be sure.
> 
>      - is there anybody else besides me interested on
> such a binding and willing to help define it?
> 
> And most important of all:
> 
>     - if the answers are all "No" as I expect, may I
> start working on defining and implementing such a
> binding myself?
> 
> Here is my idea: We already have a PHP class
> implementing access to EGEE grid middleware --see 
> 
>     http://savannah.cern.ch/project/gridgramm/
> 
> I'd like to build on top of it (or substitute it by) a
> DRMAA binding. Later on we may consider creating PHP
> bindings for other queueing systems (SGE, openPBS or
> even Condor) and Grid implementations.
> 
> The binding might be functional (based on the C
> binding) or object-oriented (based on the Java or IDL
> bindings). That would be open for discussion.
> 
> Besides, we usually implement everything here as a web
> service in the latest stages. It falls within our
> plans to make the binding into a web service as well
> (we already have some experience with asynchronous web
> services implementations). It seems that might be
> welcome, isn't it? But this, again, would be left for
> a later stage, once we have the basic library
> available.
> 
> Finally, pardon for the horrible formatting. I'm using
> Yahoo's webmail as I'm off work and it shows.
> 
>                              j
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