[saga-rg] Fwd (N.ChueHong at epcc.ed.ac.uk): [dais-wg] OGSA-DAI R5.0 released

[Andre Merzky]

FYI, 

  Andre.



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> From:    "neil p chue hong" <N.ChueHong at epcc.ed.ac.uk>
> To:      <dais-wg at gridforum.org>, <data-wg at gridforum.org>
> Subject: [dais-wg] OGSA-DAI R5.0 released
> Date:    Fri, 3 Dec 2004 17:01:00 -0000
> 
> 
> OGSA-DAI Release 5.0
> ====================
> Data Access and Integration for the Grid
> ----------------------------------------
> 
> We are pleased to announce that the new release of the OGSA-DAI
> software (in source and binary distributions) is available:
> 
> * Direct from the project website:
>   http://www.ogsadai.org.uk/downloads/
> 
> This release builds on the functionality of previous OGSA-DAI 
> releases and is built on the Globus Toolkit 3.2.1.
> 
> Highlights:
> 
> * OGSA-DAI now supports indexing, reading and full-text searching
>   across files using the Apache Lucene text search engine library.
> 
> * New command line and graphical wizards have been provided to
>   simplify the process of installation, testing and configuration of
>   OGSA-DAI.
> 
> * OGSA-DAI now supports per-activity configuration, defined in the
>   activity configuration file.
> 
> * The Grid Data Transport port type now includes a getNBlocks
>   operation, allowing GDT clients to specify the number of blocks to
>   be returned in a single SOAP message.
> 
> * A new Notification activity has been added that produces a
>   notification message when the output stream of an activity has
>   completed or commenced.
> 
> * A new XMLBulkLoad activity has been added that enables the bulk
>   loading of documents into an XML database such as Apache Xindice.
> 
> * Documentation has been reviewed and revised in light of the new
>   architecture of OGSA-DAI.
> 
> See http://www.ogsadai.org.uk/docs/R5/doc/ogsi/ReleaseNotes.html
> for more information on the new features in this release.
> 
> The distribution includes updated GridDataService, GridDataServiceFactory 
> and DAIServiceGroupRegistry components, as well as example clients. 
> These allow you to connect to MySQL, DB2, Oracle, Postgres, SQL Server 
> and XIndice databases, as well as indexed text files. 
> They have been tested on Windows 2000/XP, Redhat Linux 9 and Solaris 8/9.
> 
> If you are currently running OGSA-DAI R4.0 you may wish to read our 
> guide on upgrading to OGSA-DAI R5.0:
> http://www.ogsadai.org.uk/docs/R5/doc/ogsi/Upgrade.html
> 
> Support is provided by the OGSA-DAI team at:
> support at ogsadai.org.uk or http://www.ogsadai.org.uk/support/
> 
> A users mailing list is available at users at ogsadai.org.uk
> 
> We welcome all comments, and especially examples of usage or suggestions 
> for improvements or features.
> 
> Many thanks for trying our software.
> 
> ++ The OGSA-DAI team
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