Kelly Davis, Tom Goodale, Andre Merzky GAT API Specification: Object Based Grid Application Toolkit Gridlab-1-GAS-0004.ObjectBasedAPISpecification PSNC, ZIB, MU, SZTAKI, VU, ISUFI, CARDIFF, GRIDWARE, HP, NTUA MPG Internal GridLab-1-GAS-0004-0.1DRAFT-5-pre   -   The Grid Application Toolkit (GAT) is a Grid Middleware abstraction layer for application programmers. It is able to communicate with the diverse services of the Grid environments via adaptors, which implement the GAT API capabilities.
This document provides a language-independent, object-oriented description of the GAT API.

• Contents
• 1 Introduction
  • General GAT Design
  • 1 Scope of Document
  • 2 Structure of Document
  • 3 How to read this Document
  • 4 Status of this Document
  • 5 RFC 2119 and this Document
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• 2 API Descriptors List
  • 1 GAT Application API
    • GATRequest
    • GATRequestListener
    • GATRequestNotifier
    • GATMonitorable
    • GATMetric
    • GATMetricEvent
    • GATMetricListener
    • GATJob
    • GATSoftwareDescription
    • GATSoftwareResourceDescription
    • GATHardwareResourceDescription
    • GATResource
    • GATHardwareResource
    • GATSoftwareResource
    • GATResourceBroker
    • GATReservation
    • GATStreamable
    • GATEndpoint
    • GATPipeListener
    • GATPipe
    • GATFileStream
    • GATFile
    • GATLogicalFile
    • GATSerialization
    • GATAdvertiseable
    • GATAdvertService
  • 2 GAT Application Utility API
    • GATObject
    • GATContext
    • GATSecurityContext
    • GAT<T>CredentialService
    • GATSelf
    • GATLocation
    • GATPreferences
    • GATStatus
    • GATTime
    • GATTimePeriod
    • GATTable
  • 3 GAT Adaptor Registration API
  • 4 GAT Adaptor Utility API
  
  
• 3 GAT Application API Descriptions
  • Namespace
  • Query Language
  • Possible future extensions
  • Use Case Example
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    • GATPipe Use Case
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  • Information Requests
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• 4 GAT Application Utility API
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• 5 External Classes
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  • Operations
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• 6 Glossary
• Bibliography
• About this document ...