The Globus Toolkit 3 Programmer's Tutorial
"To do" list
This is a list of well defined tasks that have to be done in the tutorial, or that have been suggested by readers. I hope to eventually do them myself, but if anyone wants to volunteer to do one of them, or to help out with one, their assistance will be very appreciated :-) Please contact me if you'd like to help out.
- Installation: Write a step-by-step installation guide, instead of linking to other sites.
- Include instructions on how to deploy Grid Services in other host environments, such as Tomcat.
- GT3 Core (Lifecycle): Expand this section to include properties, persistent properties, requestTerminationAfter and requestTerminationBefore.
- Add a section on the BottomUp and TopDown tools
The following are more general objectives which following versions of the tutorial will (hopefully) cover:
- Include sections on GT3 higher-level services (Base Services, Data Services)
- Include a complete list of easy and simple examples, besides the ones seen in the tutorial.
- Include more "How to..." pages.
- Add JUnit modules for automated testing.
- The tutorial is primarily UNIX-oriented. It should also take into account Windows users.
Roadmap of future versions
Development of the GT3 Tutorial has already shifted to porting the existing tutorial to GT4, so I anticipate no new major releases of the GT3 Tutorial (only minor releases to correct bugs and typos). The first stable release of the GT4 Tutorial should be available at the end of December.
Borja Sotomayor