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Foil 31 Wrapping Existing Applications

From Full Description of WebFlow and Friends for Education and Science Portals NCSA Portal/Metadata Meeting -- October 22-23 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Tom Haupt


1 Currently each application is wrapped "by hand"
2 Users would like to automate the process -- "especially for simple jobs" -- need a Object Wrapping Wizard
3 Current XML Task Specification is at level of files
4 Will extend XML to include parameters so can automate construction of
  • Web Interfaces to input parameters with defaults etc. and create XML input file for job
  • Library for allow jobs to access parameters
5 <input>
6 <inFile Path="/npac/..../GEM/"
7 Name="disloc.output"/>
8 <source Host="osprey4.npac.syr.edu"
9 Path="/npac.../tmp" Name="disloc.out"/ >
10 </input>
11 <output> <outFile Path="" Name="" />
12 <dest Host="" Path="" Name="" />
13 </output>
14 Current Tool for creating Application Descriptor

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