That would probably work for LDAP or SQL (aside from GLUE 2.0 clients not seeing any information about clouds). It may or may not work for XML with our XML Schema. I don't believe it would work for JSON with JSON schema (the validation would fail). Warren ________________________________________ From: stephen.burke@stfc.ac.uk [stephen.burke@stfc.ac.uk] Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 8:20 AM To: Warren Smith; salvatore.pinto@egi.eu; glue-wg@ogf.org Subject: RE: [glue-wg] glue2 cloud examples Warren Smith [mailto:wsmith@tacc.utexas.edu] said:
I wouldn't really call the proposed cloud extensions backward compatible either: Will a GLUE 2.0 client be able to understand these extensions? No.
By backward-compatible I mean that changes don't break existing code, either publishers or clients. If new objects are introduced the answer is yes - publishers don't have to publish them, and clients won't query for them and hence won't be disturbed. Stephen -- Scanned by iCritical.