g-Eclipse Technology Project 1.0.0

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The g-Eclipse project delivers the g-Eclipse framework which includes the core middleware-independent functionality without connectors to a specific middleware and an exemplary implementation for AWS. Implementations for other middlewares are available from external sources either from the g-Eclipse team itself or by other teams.

Compatibility

While the goal of g-Eclipse 1.0 is the full backward compatibility to g-Eclipse 0.5 there will be changes in the model and in the project layout that require a new setup and a new project creation. All of those major changes they will be announced in the new and noteworthy of the release and discussed on the developers mailing list.

Internationalization

g-Eclipse bundles are internationalized. The g-Eclipse team provides an English version by default.

Target Environments

g-Eclipse runs on Windows 32-bit, Linux 32-bit and 64-bit, Mac OSX, is tested by the team on those platforms and requires a JVM 1.5 or higher.

Themes

Workflow Integration

Enable the launch of workflows on the Grid and create a Workflow Editor that allows to create and execute multiple Grid jobs that are depend on each other.

  • Preliminary Support for running workflows in the Grid [179009] (target milestone:  ---)
  • Have an Editor for drawing and saving workflows in g-Eclipse [179010] (target milestone:  ---)
  • Running Workflows on the Grid (glite) [179021] (target milestone:  ---)

Amazon Webservices Integration / Cloud Computing / Simple Storage Service

The Simple Storage Service (S3) will be integrated into the framework and the necessary connectors will be provided.

  • integration of Amazon S3 (storage service) in g-Eclipse [221297] (target milestone:  ---)
  • Enhancement of the AWS S3 integration [237065] (target milestone:  ---)

Amazon Webservices Integration / Cloud Computing / Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

The Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service will be integrated into the framework and the necessary connectors will be provided.

  • Typica v1.3 integration [235591] (target milestone:  ---)