[OGSA-BES-WG] BES question

[Joseph Bester]

On Mar 19, 2007, at 7:20 AM, dejw wrote:
> Hi,
>
> yes sure I agree with all of this and I am aware of this. I tested  
> also some service where the unique data (which wasn't in fact the  
> real job id) was added to the uri as a parameter and
> ReferenceParameters wasn't used. Generally all is clear to me. I  
> wonder only if the job id couldn't be available though? I can  
> accept that I had to store EPRs and so on, I understand the goal of  
> using this and so on.

This might occur, for example, if data staging is to be done before  
the submission. The CreateActivity operation may return the EPR to  
the Activity while the staging is in progress, prior to a submission  
to a queuing system (and thus before any local job id exists).

joe