-----Original Message----- From: owner-ogsa-wg@ggf.org [mailto:owner-ogsa-wg@ggf.org] On Behalf Of Mark Morgan Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 5:10 PM To: daveb@nesc.ac.uk; gannon@cs.indiana.edu; foster@mcs.anl.gov Cc: meder@mcs.anl.gov; ogsa-wg@gridforum.org; tony.hey@epsrc.ac.uk Subject: RE: [ogsa-wg] RE: GRIDtoday Edition: Tony Hey: 'Challenging Times for GGF & Standards'
Isn't WSRF.NET at the University of Virginia essentially proof of
The argument that is being made is not that an implementation of WS-RF cannot exist on .NET. WSRF.NET demonstrates that this is possible. The argument is about whether support for WS-Addressing is all that is required in order to interact with services built on top of WS-RF. I believe this to be an oversimplification. Support for WS-Addressing is absolutely required. However, it's not enough. The implementation of the semantics of the ResourceProperties and Lifetime related messages have to be provided. If they are not provided, a developer will end up implementing them. The analogy I usually use is this... The interaction with an HTTP server requires TCP/IP. If you have socket-programming libraries you can interact with the HTTP server. However, in the process you'll be implementing a programming library for HTTP communications. Regards, -- Savas Parastatidis http://savas.parastatidis.name this?
-- Mark Morgan Research Scientist Department of Computer Science University of Virginia http://www.cs.virginia.edu mmm2a@virginia.edu (434) 982-2790