Re: iRODS VOSpace Project on Google Code

From: Tony Linde <Tony.Linde-at-leicester.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:26:48 +0100


For anyone in UK interested in iRODS, NeSC has an event looking at this technology - Building data grids with iRODS - on 27-30 May (Reagan is one of the organisers):
  http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/866/

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Rick Wagner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am working on a pure-PHP VOSpace 1.1 endpoint in front of iRODS.
> The code is part of the shared Google Code project that Norman Gray
> set up. Right now, I'm only targeting a minimal set of features,
> namely public, read-only access into an iRODS collection. The code
> has not gotten very far yet, but I'm up the learning curve on using
> PHP's native SOAP classes. Also, as I'm building this I will try to
> abstract it enough so that adding support for other backends (such as
> a simple file store) is possible.
>
> I've gone with PHP to take advantage of Sifang Lu's iRODS client
> that's written in pure PHP. As you can imagine, this make deploying
> the server much easier. Also, Sifang and I are on the same campus,
> and he's been very accessible.
>
> Guy Rixon suggested that I share this on the mailing list, since
> there are likely other groups working on a similar project. If anyone
> is interested in collaborating, please let me know.
>
> --Rick
>
> Google Code project page
> http://code.google.com/p/volute/
>
> PHP Endpoint
> http://tinyurl.com/2u33pw
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