GT 4.1.3 Index Service: Developer's Guide

Introduction

The WS MDS Index Service collects information about grid resources and publishes that information as a service group. Client programs use resource property queries or subscription/notification to retrieve information from the index. Information can be added to the index via a number of different mechanisms: since the Index Service is implemented using the Aggregator Framework, any aggregator source can be used to provide information for the index.

This document describes the programmatic interfaces to the Index Service. See also general Globus Toolkit coding guidelines and GT 4.1.3 best practices.