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01/30/2008 3:18 AM

post5965

Concept of language bindings

Steven Newhouse commented:

"The IDL document makes it clear you what a mechanism for rendering into specific bindings... and you spend some space 
in the document showing it for Java. There is no demonstration (to the same level as the Java demonstration) how a 
binding in other languages would look."

Peter Troeger

01/30/2008 3:19 AM

post5966

Re: Concept of language bindings

Thanks for the clarification ! We have a ready-to-publish Java binding, 
based on the IDL spec. I have the outline of .NET and Python bindings, 
based on the IDL spec. And we ensured that the C binding also can be 
derived from the IDL spec. Perl and Ruby are also candidates, because 
they are somehow comparable to Python. I can give details about the 
mappings on the public comment page.

The fact is that DRMAA group decided to serialize the document 
submissions. Language bindings should rely on a publicly approved IDL 
spec, which itself relies on the DRMAA 1.0 grid recommendation. You can 
therefore expect several language binding submissions when the IDL spec 
reached 'proposed recommendation' status.

Peter Troeger

01/30/2008 3:20 AM

post5967

Re: Concept of language bindings

Steven Newhouse answered:

"That's great to hear the other bindings are in the works. I'm obviously not expecting these to appear in full in the 
IDL spec. On reading it the motivation seemed to be 'very' Java oriented."

Peter Troeger

01/30/2008 3:20 AM

post5968

Re: Concept of language bindings

Ok, we will improve the introduction part, to make the concept of separate language bindings very explicit.

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