Table of Contents
The Index Service collects monitoring and discovery information from Grid resources, and publishes it in a single location; generally, it is expected that a virtual organization will deploy one or more index services which will collect data on all of the Grid resources available within that virtual organization.
Features new in release 4.2.1
The Index Service now supports, in addition to queries made using the default XPath dialect, the new TargetedXPath dialect, which enables users to specify their own namespace mappings in queries.
The following problems and limitations are known to exist for WS MDS Index Service at the time of the 4.2.1 release:
Tested Platforms for WS-MDS Index Service:
- Linux on i386
- Windows XP
Tested containers for WS-MDS Index Service:
- Java WS Core container
- Tomcat 5.0.28
The Index Service is completely backward compatible with the version included in the GT 4.2.0 release.
Protocol changes since GT version 4.0
- Because of the Java WS Core protocol upgrades, this version is not compatible with Globus Toolkit 4.0 services. See the Java WS Core Release Notes for more details.
API changes since GT version 4.0
- None.
Schema changes since GT version 4.0
- The Index Service is affected by the schema changes made as part of the Java WS Core protocol upgrades. See the Java WS Core Release Notes for more details.
Associated standards for WS MDS Index:
- WS-ResourceProperties (WSRF-RP)
- WS-ResourceLifetime (WSRF-RL)
- WS-ServiceGroup (WSRF-SG)
- WS-BaseFaults (WSRF-BF)
- WS-BaseNotification
- WS-Topics
See Index Servicefor more information about this component.