FINS Summary
Community Grids Lab,
This software
provides an implementation of the WS-Eventing specification that was released
in August 2004. This specification -- developed jointly by Microsoft, BEA, IBM
and Sun -- can be found at http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/specification/ws-eventing/.
This particular specification provides abstractions for publish/subscribe
interactions within the Web Services domain and the ability to route
notifications to the registered entities. This specification leverages
WS-Addressing and facilitates a framework for notifications between the source
and sink nodes. In addition to sink and source, the WS-Eventing specification
also introduces a Subscription Manager which is responsible for managing
subscriptions.
We have provided an
implementation of the WS-Eventing specification. The software has also been
deployed within the OMII Container. A slew of documents pertaining to various
aspects of software is available within the distribution. We recommend that the
user read the Getting Started document for an overview of the various documents
available within this release.
Future versions of
this software will also include an implementation of the WS-Notification suite
of specifications.