We are working in development of web based services using PHP here. Our work relies mainly on using Grid technology as the back end (we are on EGEE), but we also have to develop for queueing systems. As such, DRMAA is a natural choice to build our applications. This leads me to the questions: - is there any PHP binding definition? After consulting the list archives I gather the answer is "No". - is there anybody working on defining a DRMAA PHP binding? Again, it seems that the answer is "No", but I'd like to be sure. - is there anybody else besides me interested on such a binding and willing to help define it? And most important of all: - if the answers are all "No" as I expect, may I start working on defining and implementing such a binding myself? Here is my idea: We already have a PHP class implementing access to EGEE grid middleware --see http://savannah.cern.ch/project/gridgramm/ I'd like to build on top of it (or substitute it by) a DRMAA binding. Later on we may consider creating PHP bindings for other queueing systems (SGE, openPBS or even Condor) and Grid implementations. The binding might be functional (based on the C binding) or object-oriented (based on the Java or IDL bindings). That would be open for discussion. Besides, we usually implement everything here as a web service in the latest stages. It falls within our plans to make the binding into a web service as well (we already have some experience with asynchronous web services implementations). It seems that might be welcome, isn't it? But this, again, would be left for a later stage, once we have the basic library available. Finally, pardon for the horrible formatting. I'm using Yahoo's webmail as I'm off work and it shows. j -- Jose R. Valverde, PhD, MD, MSci Head of Scientific Computing EMBnet/CNB ______________________________________________ LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por minuto. http://es.voice.yahoo.com