WS MDS includes a Java package subsystem called UsefulRP which is home to (among other things) the Resource Property Provider component, otherwise known as the RPProvider Framework. The RPProvider Framework is an extensible software component that can be used to dynamically generate XML values for one or more WSRF Resource Properties in any given GT4 Java WSRF-Core compatible service.

Features in GT 4.2.0 WS MDS UsefulRP

The RPProvider configuration file format has changed slighty. The ResourcePropertyProviderConfigArray structure contains an array of xml elements of the type resourcePropertyProviderConfig. In 4.0.x, the element name for each array item was "configArray"; in 4.2.x, the name has been changed to "resourcePropertyProviderConfiguration".

Structurally, the ResourcePropertyProviderConfigArray and its child elements have not been modified in any other way. Therefore, a search and replace for all instances of "configArray" with "resourcePropertyProviderConfiguration" should be all that is necessary to make 4.0.x RPProvider configuration files compatible with 4.2.x versions.

The following problems and limitations are known to exist for WS MDS UsefulRP at the time of the 4.2.0 release:

WS MDS UsefulRP depends on the following GT components:

WS MDS UsefulRP depends on the following 3rd party software:

Linux, Windows (except GLUERP)

Protocol changes since GT 4.0.x

API changes since GT 4.0.x

Exception changes since GT 4.0.x

Schema changes since GT 4.0.x

See UsefulRP for more information about this component.