[ogsa-wg] Announcing the release of WSRF.NET 2.0

[Hiro Kishimoto]

Hi,

Glenn S. Wasson's email bounced.
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Hiro Kishimoto

Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:19:36 -0500 (EST)
From: "Glenn S. Wasson" <wasson at Virginia.EDU>
Subject: Announcing the release of WSRF.NET 2.0

Apologies to people who may seen this before, but I thought it might be of
interest to this group.

Glenn



Hello,

        This message is to announce the release of WSRF.NET 2.0, the University
of Virginia's implementation of the Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF) and
Web Service Notification (WSN) family of specifications on the Microsoft .NET
platform.

WSRF.NET 2.0 features include:
- Interoperability with GT 3.9.4
- Use of powerful XML database (Yukon, SQLExpress, or Xindice)
- Includes prototype Grid-in-a-box services to create a remote
  execution grid
- Support for GSI proxy certificates
- New WSRF.NET forum


WSRF.NET is the University of Virginia Grid Computing Group's toolkit for
creating WSRF-compliant web services on the Microsoft .NET platform. WSRF.NET
includes implementations of all port types in the WSRF and WS-Notification
family of specifications. This includes:

WS-ResourceProperties
WS-ResourceLifetime
WS-ServiceGroups
WS-BaseFaults
WS-BaseNotification
WS-Topics
WS-BrokeredNotification

Other features of WSRF.NET include:

- WS-Resources can be state or running processes
- Support for multiple databases (e.g. MS SQLServer Yukon, MS SQLExpress,
  Xindice)
- Attribute-based programming model
- Full support for WSE 2.0
- Ability to program services in any .NET language
- Integrated tools to perform port type aggregation
- Light-weight client-side notification receiver
- Many examples and tutorial materials

The WSRF.NET bits, instructions, etc. can be downloaded from
http://www.ws-rf.net.


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Glenn Wasson
wasson at virginia.edu
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~gsw2c/