Fwd: Re: [globus-developer] Developing/Deploying a Grid Service

[Robert Olson]

>Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:02:14 +0100
>From: Ian Stokes-Rees <i.stokes-rees1 at physics.ox.ac.uk>
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>Subject: Re: [globus-developer] Developing/Deploying a Grid Service
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>>To add some time perspective, it took me almost two weeks worth of work 
>>to get to the point were my service was deployable. The majority of that 
>>was figuring out which targets to use and how to use them. I have a 
>>reasonable understanding of ant and have previously done a course on grid 
>>services with the alpha version. My expectation was that this should only 
>>have taken a couple of days.
>
>FWIW, This closely matches my experience -- writing, building, and 
>deploying services is currently *far* from a straight forward process. The 
>documentation for the build files and ant targets is quite minimal, and 
>they often do not behave as expected, certainly in terms of checking that 
>variables are defined (although this is just a complaint I have about ant 
>-- if an ant property is undefined, an error should be thrown, rather than 
>simply creating a directory or file called ${service.name}_portType.java).
>
>It also took me weeks to get a running service the first time 'round.  I 
>have just had to go though the process again on a new machine, and even 
>though I have detailed notes it still took a few days to get everything up 
>and running.
>
>Ian.
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>Ian Stokes-Rees               i.stokes-rees at physics.ox.ac.uk
>Particle Physics, Oxford      http://www-pnp.physics.ox.ac.uk/~stokes
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