Subject: CCPE Portal C548 From: "Mary Thomas" Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 18:17:58 -0700 To: "Geoffrey Fox" X-UIDL: 2c08a821d60e0000 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Received: by mailer.csit.fsu.edu (mbox gcfpc) (with Cubic Circle's cucipop (v1.31 1998/05/13) Sun Oct 14 18:03:46 2001) X-From_: fox@mailer.csit.fsu.edu Sun Oct 14 18:03:25 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gcfpc@csit.fsu.edu Received: from dirac.csit.fsu.edu (dirac.csit.fsu.edu [144.174.128.44]) by mailer.csit.fsu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FF2F23A07 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:03:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by dirac.csit.fsu.edu (AIX4.2/UCB 8.7) id SAA86622; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:03:24 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <200110142203.SAA86622@dirac.csit.fsu.edu> Delivered-To: fox@csit.fsu.edu Received: from mask.uits.indiana.edu (mask.uits.indiana.edu [129.79.6.184]) by mailer.csit.fsu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id F02DD23A18 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 21:18:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from relay.sdsc.edu (relay.sdsc.edu [132.249.20.66]) by mask.uits.indiana.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1/IUPO) with ESMTP id f8T1FvM30041 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 20:15:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from mthomastp (dhcp-65-102.sdsc.edu [132.249.65.102]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by relay.sdsc.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1/SDSCmx-6) with ESMTP id f8T1I4413763 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EXP1024-RC4-SHA (56 bits) verified NO) for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 18:18:06 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: mthomas@sdsc.edu Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Resent-To: Geoffrey Fox Resent-Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:03:24 -0400 Resent-From: Geoffrey Fox REFEREE'S REPORT Concurrency and Computation:Practice and Experience ********** C: Paper and Referee Metadata Paper Number C548: Date: 9/28/01 Paper Title: A Web Services Data Analysis Grid Author(s): Watson, Bird, Chen, Hess, Kowalski, Chen Referee: Kurt Mueller, Mary Thomas Address: mthomas@sdsc.edu 10100 Hopkins Drive La Jolla, CA 92093 Referee recommendations: Accept provided changes suggested are made. D. Referee comments for editor only: E. Referee comments for author and editor: Presentation - fine Competence - fine Originality - fine Contribution - high, but not about web services. Strengths - Well-written; good details of Lattice Portal. Recommendations - This paper should be structured and titled differently. It purports to be about web services, but in reality the web services aspect is in the early stages of development and is not clearly described. If I'm a developer looking to use Java servlets to implement web services, this paper will not be of great help to me because it provides little practical information about how to use servlets for this purpose. It does, however, describe the Lattice Portal and its background, purpose, and components. I think that the paper should be about the Lattice Portal, with a discussion near the end about how web services are being developed and implemented. The focus of the publication is on practical experience, so the majority of the content of a paper in the publication should be about practical experience, not future plans. The Lattice Portal itself is very interesting, and I'm sure that others would benefit from learning more about details of its implementation. .