[gridrpc-wg] Comments on SAGA API V.01

[Craig Lee]

Dear GridRPC Colleagues,

The SAGA design team (Simple API for Grid Applications) has produced a
strawman API document that will be discussed at GGF-14.  This strawman
document is part of the "discovery process" that SAGA must go through
prior to becoming a working group and producing a GGF Recommendation
document.

Hence, we want to get as many comments as possible on this document.
It is available in txt and pdf at:

http://wiki.cct.lsu.edu/saga/space/start/strawman-api.txt
http://wiki.cct.lsu.edu/saga/space/start/strawman-api.pdf

Comments can be made by posting to the SAGA mailing list (saga-rg at ggf.org)
(if you are subscribed to it) or by sending email directly to
Andre Merzky <andre at merzky.net> and Shantenu Jha <s.jha at ucl.ac.uk>.

This document really only covers eight concepts: Name Spaces, Files,
Logical Files, Jobs, Streams, Attributes, Error Handling, and Tasks.
Hence, it is relatively easy to understand the overall design approach
and whether it fits your design needs.  Because this document
specifies the API down to every argument for every call, however, it
is 87 pages in length, but don't be scared off!  It really has a very
simple structure.

Please forward this request to anyone who might be interested.

Thanks!

--Craig