I would tend to agree with you about an Application Template or application description. On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 07:22 -0700, Steven Newhouse wrote:
An application that cannot handle spaces in the paths is a fact of life and we need to be able to describe that unfortunately circumstance.
But I'm not sure that this is the fault of JSDL. I can specify a file path in JSDL that does not exist - regardless of the 'correctness' of the application or not - that would seem to be my fault, not JSDLs.
A verification requirement in the BES would seem to be more appropriate. A local BES might know that BLAST on that platform can only have data files in /opt/data and that a file URL cannot have any spaces.
This might be something described in the Application Template specification or someplace else?
Steven