Subject: C426 JGSI Review
Resent-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 23:19:00 -0400
Resent-From: Geoffrey Fox <gcf@npac.syr.edu>
Resent-To: p_gcf@npac.syr.edu
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 00:46:43 -0600
From: "David S. Dixon" <ddixon@leastsquares.com>
Organization: Least Squares Software, LLC
To: Geoffrey Fox <gcf@npac.syr.edu>

1.  Overall
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This is not a subject I follow, or understand well, so I had a hard time
getting the point of the paper.  Is it an overview?  A review?  A report
of ongoing research?  This paper was imported to Acrobat incorrectly
which chopped off a significant fraction of the bottoms of every page.

Otherwise, it is an interesting topic, and one which is far broader than
Grande applications.

2.  Comments for Author(s)
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Use of acronyms.  A large number of acronyms were used without
introduction, ranging from fairly common, such as OO, API, JDBC, CORBA,
ORB, to ones more esoteric, like PKI, SSL, and ones I don't know, like
HPCC, ASC MSRC, PBS, AVS, OMG.

* Missing reference - First sentence, para. 2, page 2, AVS and Khoros
should have references.
* Repeated word - Third sentence, para. 4, page 2, "complexity" is
repeated.
* Incorrect plural  - Third sentence, para. 4, page 2, should be
"...using the industry standard distributed-object..."
* Interchanged words - Fourth sentence, para 2, page 3, should be "...in
general, with which to..."
* Run-on sentence - Fourth sentence, para. 1, page 5, should be "...even
the front-end developer.  Thus, the Gateway..."
* Typo - Third sentence, para. 2, page 5, should be "...(such as Globus)
or an external scheduler..."
* Repeated word - Fourth sentence, para. 3, page 7, "similar" is
repeated.
* Incorrect plural  - First sentence, para. 2, page 8, should be
"...with servlet support..."
* Incorrect tense  - Sixth sentence, para. 2, page 8, should be
"...support is built on..."
* Incorrect punctuation  - First sentence, para. 2, page 9, comma should
be period.
* Jumbled sentence  - Fourth sentence, para. 2, page 9, the phrase
"...connecting included in an application."

3.  Comments for Editor(s)
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This paper was imported to Acrobat incorrectly which chopped off a
significant fraction of the bottoms of every page.