C: Paper and Referee Metadata

    * Paper Number Cnnn: 531
    * Date: 29 June 2001 (received), 27 September 2001 (reviewed)
    * Paper Title: The Grid Portal Development Kit

    * Author(s): Jason Novotny

    * Referee: Kamil Iskra, Dick van Albada

    * Address:
	Section Computational Science
	Universiteit van Amsterdam
	Kruislaan 403
	1098 SJ Amsterdam
	The Netherlands

Referee Recommendations. Please indicate overall recommendations here, and
details in following sections.

   1. publish as is
   2. accepted provided changes suggested are made
   3. reject

2 or 3

D: Referee Comments (For Editor Only)

The paper will actually need a second round of reviewing in order to
ascertain that it meets the minimum requirements in the quality of the
presentation.

E: Referee Comments (For Author and Editor)

My principal complaint is that the paper as submitted is very unfinished. 
While clearly relevant, the quality of the final paper cannot really be
judged on basis of this version. 

The paper describes the development kit for Grid-based computational
science portals, and as such fits well within the topic range of this
special issue of CCP&E.  The paper describes various elements of the 
development kit, often in great detail. In this sense the paper is 
somwhere between a manual (for which it has too little detail) and
a paper describing the concepts (where the level of detail becomes
confusing).

Sadly, the bibliographic references in the body of the paper were
empty, which doesn't help in reviewing.

In section 2 (Overview of the Grid Portal Development Kit), the author
briefly mentions cookies and says that they will be discussed in more
detail in section 2.1.  I can't find any mention of cookies in there.

Section 4 appears to be (partly?) missing (See below).

F: Presentation Changes

The paper doesn't use the right style for typesetting and the figures
are of unsatisfactory quality.

Either there's something wrong with section numbering, or some pages
are missing.  Namely, there is no section 4, section 3 (GPDK as a
portal development environment) is followed immediately by section 5
(Related work).

The quality of the figures is poor.

I spotted several typos in section 2.3.2 (Job Submission) and 2.3.3
(File Transfer): "GSI enhance", "idf", "succesfully", "coommand".

More references are needed - e.g. for ANT