[saga-rg] Fwd (s.newhouse at omii.ac.uk): [OMII-ANNOUNCE] New OGSA-DAI Releases for GT4, OMII_2 and Axis

[Andre Merzky]

FYI, 

  Andre.


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> Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 09:56:15 +0100
> From: Steven Newhouse <s.newhouse at omii.ac.uk>
> Subject: [OMII-ANNOUNCE] New OGSA-DAI Releases for GT4, OMII_2 and Axis
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> 
> New OGSA-DAI Releases for GT4, OMII_2 and Axis
> ==============================================
> Data Access and Integration for the Grid
> ----------------------------------------
> 
> Dear Registered User of OGSA-DAI,
> 
> We are pleased to announce that the new 2.2 releases of
> the OGSA-DAI software (in source and binary distributions for
> GT4, OMII_2 and Axis) are available:
> 
> * Direct from the project website:
>    http://www.ogsadai.org.uk/downloads/
> 
> The OGSA-DAI distribution contains Data Service components, as well as
> example clients. These allow you to connect to MySQL, DB2, Oracle,
> Postgres, SQL Server and eXist databases, as well as indexed text
> files.  They have been tested on Windows 2000/XP, Redhat Enterprise
> Linux 3 and Solaris 9.
> 
> This is the eighth major release of OGSA-DAI and provides support for
> different "flavours" of OGSA-DAI and middleware platforms, with a Client
> Toolkit API providing application-side abstraction across these
> differences.
> 
> Highlights of this release:
> 
> Additional Resource Management Support:
> - Support for creating lightweight transient data service resources.
> - Activity supporting the withdrawal of data service resources.
> 
> Relational Resource Aggregation:
> - A data service resource that aggregates multiple relational data service
>    resources, with three related activities to query the aggregated 
> resource.
> 
> New Activities:
> - Data conversion: ResultSet to WebRowSet / CSV, ResultSetBLOB to bytes.
> - Relational meta-data: Retrieve logical and physical database schema.
> - XMLDB: XQuery support
> - Projection and transformation: Remove duplicate rows, project onto a
>    column name or index, distribute numeric values onto spaces, generate
>    a random sample of input data.
> - Delivery: Write data to a resource property, deliver data to null,
>    Deliver data to a SOAP attachment.
> - Write a stream of bytes to a temporary file and output a reference.
> 
> Security:
> - Resource and activity level authorization interface.
> - GSI Secure Conversation message-level security for inter-service
>    communications using data transport for OGSA-DAI WSRF.
> 
> Other:
> - Improved support for BLOBs in SQL query and update activities.
> - Revamped logging, exceptions and internationalization.
> - JARs required to compile OGSA-DAI source and run OGSA-DAI clients
>    in binary distribution are now bundled with OGSA-DAI.
> - Numerous performance enhancements (summary of work on website).
> 
> More detailed information is available in the Release Notes and
> Documentation for the release: http://www.ogsadai.org.uk/documentation/
> The software and documentation is distributed under the OGSA-DAI Project
> Licence: http://www.ogsadai.org.uk/downloads/licence.php
> 
> Support is provided by the OGSA-DAI team at:
> 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. If you do not want to receive
> notifications of new releases or updates, please send a message to
> info at ogsadai.org.uk.
> 
> Many thanks for using our software.
> 
> ++ The OGSA-DAI team
> ++ Part of OMII-UK
> 
> -- The OGSA-DAI Project @ http://www.ogsadai.org.uk Queries and Support: 
> support at ogsadai.org.uk A UK eScience Grid Core Programme Project

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