General Capability

Type of Work	Item	Explanation	Documentation
R&D	Remote access support expanded (SRB, etc.)	There are many options here, including web service support, OPeNDAP, Storage Resource Broker. One idea is to use XML as a standard language to transfer information between client and server. (1) Use XML schema to describe HDF5 files (see "XML HDF5 schema" entry) (2) Implement SOAP for HDF (3) Develop web service for HDF (4) Test client-server model Tech-X has done a web services implementation -- can we use that.	Portable and Distributed HDF (PDH) Peter X. Cao, March 2003

Type of Work

R&D

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Item

Remote access support expanded (SRB, etc.)

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Explanation

There are many options here, including web service support, OPeNDAP, Storage Resource Broker. One idea is to use XML as a standard language to transfer information between client and server.

• (1) Use XML schema to describe HDF5 files (see "XML HDF5 schema" entry)
• (2) Implement SOAP for HDF
• (3) Develop web service for HDF
• (4) Test client-server model

Tech-X has done a web services implementation -- can we use that.

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Documentation

Portable and Distributed HDF (PDH) Peter X. Cao, March 2003