GT 3.9.0 Java WSRF Core Preview Release Notes

This release of the Globus Toolkit® contains a preview implementation of the WS-ResourceLifetime, WS-ResourceProperties, WS-BaseFaults, and WS-BaseNotification specifications. This preview will evolve into the foundation of the web services based portion of the upcoming 4.0 release.

The preview implements the specifications with the following exceptions and limitations:

Only the Simple topic dialect is supported
No support for actions on the precondition, selector and policy fields in a subscription
No support for non-Notify notifications
Only XPath resource property queries are supported
SetResourceProperties operation only works with a single Insert, Delete, or Update request at a time (AXIS-600 Bug)
QNames might not be serialized/deserialized correctly in certain cases where its namespace matches the namespace of the surrounding element. This applies to operations like GetResourceProperty, GetMultipleResourceProperties, etc. (Axis bug)

Other implementation limitations and notes:

The WSRF implementation was not tested in Tomcat or any other web container.
When a resource is removed, its subscriptions are not removed currently. Also, persistence of subscriptions is not supported.
A SetResourceProperty operation can trigger multiple notifications for a single operation if used in conjunction with a Topic implementation that automatically sends notifications on any ResourceProperty changes. This is due to the fact that some SetResourceProperty operations are resulting in more than one ResourceProperty modification. For example, "Update" is implemented as a clear() followed by an add().

In addition to an implementation of the above mentioned specifications, this release also contains:

A standalone and embeddable container
A couple of base services (a Subscription Manager service and a Notification Consumer service)
A JNDI based registry based on the JNDI service in Apache Tomcat
An implementation of the Work Manager and Timer specifications
Tests