[kepler-dev] modifying kepler web service module

[Ilkay Altintas]

Matt,

These are great additions to the Kepler Web Service, especially number  
3 in your list.

Jing: It would be good to discuss how we can make the cache enabling  
configurable to a remote resource.

Cheers,
-ilkay

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On Jun 12, 2009, at 3:44 PM, Jianwu Wang wrote:

> Hi Matt,
>
>   The Webservice implementation didn't include the new features of  
> current Kepler truck. So feel free to update it. Thanks.
>    Your modification points look good. I'll keep in touch with Jing  
> to help in case of unpredicted problems.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Sincerely yours
>
> Jianwu Wang
> jianwu at sdsc.edu
> http://users.sdsc.edu/~jianwu/
>
> Scientific Workflow Automation Technologies (SWAT) Laboratory
> San Diego Supercomputer Center University of California, San Diego
> San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
>
>
> Matt Jones wrote:
>> 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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