Dear All It has been a while that the mailing list has not been used, but there was work progressing underneath : Some time ago, we did a prototype for the GridRPC Data Management API, that we mostly used to check if things were missing to the API relying on practical cases. I'm glad to inform you that a new, very modular and already working library has been made available, which provides both the GridRPC _and_ most of the GridRPC Data Management API. This new implementation has already many modules to manage different communication protocols (hopefully more to come); it also allows a single GridRPC client program to call more than one Grid middleware for services and much more. Additionally everything has been made to ease module development (no name conflicts: If the Grid middleware is already GridRPC compliant, the module is more or less empty, if not, it is thus really possible to make it compliant). The different modules available are - Grid middleware modules for DIET and Ninf, and - Data Manager modules for Dagda, iRods, Owncloud, Rsync, Scp. The library uses cmake and can be configured and installed with the provided generator.sh script. Please check the install/testing/ repository from where you can launch a complete local deployment/execution/shutdown of DIET and Ninf by just calling the as-is furnished script. Please download, contribute to code or send your returns: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gridrpcdm/ Regards. .Y -------- Associate Professor at Université de Lyon Délégation CNRS at JFLI, University of Tokyo http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/~ycaniou