[saga-rg] Short Strawman versions

[Andre Merzky]

Well, the question is what do you want to do, really.  Just
submit a job, just copy a file, just replicate one, just
open a stream...  In itself the use cases are simple, if you
take them all together its getting a large API.

Session handle and security are designed to have sensible
default values - so you don't need to touch them.  We should
make that very clear.  E.g., if there is a X509 proxy for
your user id lying around, the default session handle (which
you won't even see) should have a X509 context attached
automatically.

Now, the qeustion really is: is it still too complex, or are
we cleverly hiding the simplicity? :-D

I assume that I am somewhat blinkered due to my daily dose
of SAGA - I think its blindingly simple, and we just need
good examples (e.g. map API to our use cases) to make that
obvious.  I might be wrong though...?

Andre.



Quoting [Steven Newhouse] (Aug 03 2005):
> Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 16:40:35 +0100
> From: Steven Newhouse <sjn5 at doc.ic.ac.uk>
> To: Andre Merzky <andre at merzky.net>
> CC: Simple API for Grid Applications WG <saga-rg at ggf.org>
> Subject: Re: [saga-rg] Short Strawman versions
> 
> >Is it merily confusing (== not simple) because its so much,
> 
> The basic entry point involves too many 'simple' interfaces. If I just 
> want to submit a job, what do I want to deal with? The session (probably 
> not) & security (probably yes) APIs?
> 
> Steven
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