[jsdl-wg] Re: JSDL?

[Chee-Kian Koh]

Donal,

On a similar note, what is the current status of JSDL? Roughly when can we expect the final release to be ready? Sorry, I've not been following closely the mailing list.

Thanks.

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Melvin Koh Chee Kian
Grid Research Engineer
Asia Pacific Science & Technology Center
Sun Microsystems Inc.
Website: http://apstc.sun.com.sg/
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Donal K. Fellows" <donal.k.fellows at manchester.ac.uk>
Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 9:07 pm
Subject: [jsdl-wg] Re: JSDL?

> Chin Chee-Kai wrote:
> > I was browsing around for GGF13 when I chanced upon JSDL
> > archived discussions on JSDL.  You appear to be answering
> > some of the questions so I thought I could write to you
> > for my perhaps overly-simplistic question:
> > 
> > What is JSDL?  Is it some kind of Job Service Description
> > Language?  The team appears to be designing a kind of
> > resource description XSD schema.
> 
> JSDL stands for Job Submission Description Language, and it's 
> purpose is
> to describe simple job descriptions. By simple, I mean a single
> invocation of some program (or a webservice or an SQL lookup or 
> whateverelse you want to do with extensibility), with possibly some 
> files staged
> in beforehand and staged out afterwards.
> 
> We are aware that it is an incomplete solution to the general 
> problem of
> job and workflow running on the grid. This because we envisage other
> languages that mix into JSDL or wrap around JSDL to provide these
> extended sets of functionality; we're trying to keep the focus of JSDL
> itself small so that we can achieve a defined task in as short a 
> time as
> possible. This is covered in the specification (see Figure 2) 
> though it
> needs some more explanatory text.
> 
> > Could you give some pointers on JSDL, latest alpha/beta/full
> > versions of XSDs available, or any info to me please?
> 
> The documents at https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/jsdl-wg/docman/
> are a out of date, but not very far out of date. There are aspects of
> the document though that may change before we do a final release. To
> understand these, you'll probably need to attend the teleconference.
> Contact details for that are sent out on the JSDL mailing list (which
> this message is cc'ed to) and can be looked up in the archive of 
> the 
> mailing list on the JSDL website.
> http://www-unix.gridforum.org/mail_archive/jsdl-wg/threads.html
> 
> Donal.
> 
>