Oxana Smirnova wrote: [...]
a) accomodate more elements (most notably, Run-time Environment for an application) b) enable multiple job definitions in a single "script"/file c) allow for alternative parameter requests (e.g., alternative OS, environment, host etc) [...] Hopefully, this can be taken as an input for further JSDL development. NorduGrid so far did not participate in JSDL-WG activities, but can contribute in future, if the WG members find it useful.
Thank you for your input. The following responses are merely my opinion on your three points, but I suspect that many other WG members will agree. a) This should be possible through either the existing subelements of the POSIXApplication element, or through extension. However I'd love to see more input from you on this as part of the development of the next version of the spec. b) This should be done by wrapping the JSDL singletons inside some larger XML dialect that describes the relationship of the basic jobs to each other. Although we want to support workflows, we've always pushed the workflow bit of it out of scope so we can get agreement on the rest of everything. :^) c) I think we're punting this one out to WS-Agreement (over a space of JSDL terms). It gets really complicated otherwise as you start to try to describe spaces of coupled terms... In summary, "why isn't it possible now", "out of scope", and "out of scope". But that's just a bit short and I think you'll prefer the longer outline above. ;^) Donal.