[drmaa-wg] PHP binding

[Rayson Ho]

The DRMAA perl binding uses SWIG (Simplified Wrapper and Interface
Generator) to define the interface.

Once a SWIG interface is defined, then you can get language bindings
for many languages:  Lua, Tcl, Perl, Python, Ruby, Guile, PHP to name
a few...

In fact, the Python DRMAA binding was implemented this way:
http://gridengine.sunsource.net/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=users&msgNo=13401

Jose, since we already have the DRMAA SWIG interface already
implemented and debugged (when we did the Perl bindings), may be you
can look into using it as a start??

SWIG:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWIG

Rayson



On 3/23/06, Jose R Valverde <txomsy at yahoo.es> wrote:
> 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
> --
> Jose R. Valverde, PhD, MD, MSci
> Head of Scientific Computing
> EMBnet/CNB
>
>
>
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