Contents

• Preface
  • Why GAT?
  • Organization of the User's Guide
  • Who You Are
  • GAT Versions
  • About the Examples
  • Conventions Used in the User's Guide
  • Request for Comments
  • GAT Installation
  • GAT Requirements
  
  
• Why GAT?
  • Why GAT?
  • What Can GAT Do?
  • Wait, There's More to GAT!
  
  
• Basic Grid Concepts
  • Grid
  • Grid Protocols
  • The Grid Computing Model
  • Grid Standards
  
  
• Basic Web Concepts
  • Wonderful World Wide Web
  • URI's Relative and Absolute
  • Security
  • HTTP, HTTPS, and Beyond
  • XML and XML Schemas
  • Web Services
  
  
• GAT Object Model
  • C ain't Object Oriented
  • GAT Object Model
  • GAT Interface Model
  • Some Not So Useful Programs
  
  
• File Management
  • Files, Folders, and the Letter ``F''
  • The File Package
  • Some Useful Programs
  
  
• FileStream Management
  • Copy, Move, and Delete, but I How to Write!
  • The FileStream Package
  • Some Useful Programs
  
  
• LogicalFile Management
  • The Shortest Distance Between Two Points...
  • The LogicalFile Package
  • Some Useful Programs
  
  
• Advert Management
  • So, where did I put my Keys?
  • The Advertisement Package
  • Some Useful Programs
  
  
• Resource Management
  • The Resource Management Package
  • Finding Resources
  • Making Plans and Changing Your Mind
  • The Resource Management Package
  • Some Useful Programs
  
  
• Interprocess Communication
  • Telephones of the Internet Age
  • The Streaming Package
  • Some Useful Programs
  
  
• Job Management
  • Job Management
  • The Job Management Package
  • Obtaining the State of a Job Instance
  • Obtaining the JobID of a Job Instance
  • Obtaining the JobDescription of a Job Instance
  • Obtaining Information about a Job Instance
  • Un-Scheduling a Job Instance
  • Stoping a Job Instance
  • Checkpointing a Job Instance
  • Migrating a Job Instance
  • Cloning a Job Instance
  • Some Useful Programs
  
  
• Event System
  • Being Spyed On: A User's Guide
  • The Event Package
  
  
• Adaptors
  • So, you want to be in movies?
  • The Adaptor Interface
  • Some Useful Programs
  
  
• Appendix: GATTypes
• Appendix: GAT Primitive Types
• Appendix: GATResult Codes
  • Severity Code
  • Customer Code
  • Reserved Code
  • Facility Code
  • Facility Status Code
  • GATResult Macro's
  
  
• Appendix: GATPreferences
• Appendix: Regular Expressions
  • Brief History
  • Regular Expressions in Formal Language Theory
  • POSIX Regular Expression Syntax
  
  
• Appendix: GATTable
  • Creating and Destroying Table instances
  • Adding Key/Value Pairs
  • Removing Key/Value Pairs
  • Obtaining Values Corresponding to a Given Key
  • Obtaining a Table's Size
  • Obtaining All Keys
  
  
• Appendix: GATString
  • Creating and Destroying String Instances
  • Examining a String's Properties
  • Translating a String to a New Encoding
  • Comparing two Strings
  • Examining String Prefix and Suffix
  • Concatenating Strings
  • Examining Substrings of a String
  • Obtaining Substrings
  
  
• Appendix: Backus-Naur Form
• Appendix: POSIX Paths
• About this document ...