Re: ADASS discussions

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Alasdair Allan wrote:

> > Parastatidis et al.
>
> Is this conference proceedings/journal paper? I haven't seen it, do you
> have a full reference handy?

http://www.neresc.ac.uk/projects/gaf/A%20Grid%20Application%20Framework%20based%20on%20Web%20Services%20Specifications%20and%20Practices%20v1.0.pdf

It's a white paper. I'd urge anybody planning to use OGSI to read this.

> This at least means that the infrastructure is usable _now_ which is
> starting to become very, very, important. If persistance becomes vital
> it can be introduced by using cookies at the web service level in the
> short term, before moving to a full Grid-enabled service (although perhaps
> still allowing simpler queries to the service to be via a pure-SOAP
> call?).

I'm not familiar with "SOAP cookies". I know of the WS-Context standard, which is what Parastatidis et al. recommend as (part of) the alternative to OGSI; are they the same?

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