[kepler-dev] modifying kepler web service module

[Matt Jones]

Hi Jianwu,

We've been looking at deploying a Kepler web service instance for our
SanParks project, and your implementation looks like a good starting
point.  However, it is missing a few critical features that we would
need.  In particular, we use actors that utilize the cache, and we
need to use the KAR handling features that have been recently added.
So, we'd like to modify the kepler web service in the following ways:

1) Remove kepler.jar and replace it with a dependency on the HEAD of
the kepler build to get the latest changes
2) Change the startup to use KeplerInitilaizer.intializeSystem() so
that its an instance of Kepler that is running and the cache is
available
3) allow access to the incipient Workflow Run Manager module for
various KAR handling functions
4) add some new API methods for starting an execution and some status
reporting methods

Do you see any issues with Jing adding this functionality to your work
in the web service module? Thanks,

Matt

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