[Condor-devel] Writing a SAGA adaptor for Condor

["João Abecasis" <joao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everyone,

I'm a developer with the SAGA C++ project, which provides the Simple
API for Grid Applications. In our implementation, middleware specifics
are hidden behind the standard API through the use of pluggable
adaptors. Currently, there are adaptors for Globus and GridSAM and I
will be developing one to interface to Condor. You can find additional
about the project here, and I'll be getting to the point after the
break:

    http://saga.cct.lsu.edu/

So, while I'm still getting started, I'm looking for advice any of you
may have. In particular, I need to decide on the particular Condor API
to target.

>From what I've gathered, I couldn't find a C API or library to link
to. It seems that the recommended APIs are the command line tools,
GAHP and SOAP. Any comments on this or issues I should be aware of?
Any recommendations with regard to the backward and forward
compatibility of the APIs?

Also, since we want to cover the broadest installed base, from your
experience, would any of those be less widely available? For instance,
the SOAP API is turned off, by default. Does anyone have an indication
of how that relates to deployments out there?

Comments are mostly welcome. Thank you all for your time.

Cheers,


João Abecasis