Release Notes

Features

  • UDDI WS interface
  • WSDL WS interface: publication and inquiry of web service technical specification described by a WSDL file.
  • Metadata WS interface: publication and inquiry of metadata that can be attached to UDDI entities or WSDL elements. Service discovery by metadata is also supported.
  • RDF WS interface
  • Both Jena and Sesame can be used as the triple store.
    • Supported Jena stores: memory, BDB JE, PostgreSQL, MySQL.
    • Supported Sesame stores: memory, file-backed memory, native, PostgreSQL.
    • Sesame support is through a Jena-Sesame-Model.
  • Lifetime management
  • Support for WS-ResourceProperties
  • Support for WS-ResourceLifetime
  • Support for WS-Notification (WS-BasicNotification and WS-Topics)
  • A client-side high-level user-friendly Java API library: GrimoiresProxy. It can be used to talk with GRIMOIRES in different deployment environments (GT4/OMII/Axis), and even with jUDDI (a standard UDDI implementation).
  • A command-line user-friendly client - GShell, which is based on GrimoiresProxy.
  • Support for authentication using X509 signatures and an XML based ACL for specification of access control. Implemented as a PDP in GT4.

Deployment Environments

Globus Tookit 4.

In fact, GRIMOIRES relies on Java WS Core only.

GRIMOIRES has been tested in ws-core-4.0.1 and ws-core-4.0.3.