Hi all!
My name is Marc Poch, I work at IULA (http://www.iula.upf.edu/) and we have
been using Taverna for the PANACEA project from the begining (
http://panacea-lr.eu/).
>From my point of view:
----- Good things -----:
** Usability*
*
*
* *The community* and the *support team* behind Taverna (every time I have
a doubt, problem or proposal there is someone to help me)
** Updated and maintained*: there are new and improved versions every year
* *Interoperability*: we've tried JAX-WS, axis1, axis2 so far with success,
there is support for different data encodings (utf8 and others), etc.
------ Things to improve -------:
* *Design of a generic Interface for asynchronous web services* with a
single component box like it is with Soaplab web services. Workflows don't
need to show the complexity of asynchroonous calls (repeated loops to see
if a task running on a server is finished). Workflows using the Soaplab
plugin offer the polling advantages for long lasting tasks while keeping
the design very simple (based on high level functionality
components/operations). We discussed this topic with Alan R Williams
because our users basically reject the use of workflows if they have to add
the polling system in the workflows.
** Improve robustness and large data handling*: (T 2.4 has been a really
good improvement), reduce memory footprint, there are some problems when
using direct data instead of referenced data when processing large amounts
of data or a lot of files with read/write operations, etc.
* *Provenance*:
- the progress report should be exportable,
- the user should be able to configure the provenance (the user would like
to choose which data should be stored), etc.
* Input interface *local service*: It would be interesting to have a
predefined component that could be put at the beginning of every workflow
that could be configured for every execution to read data from a folder, or
from a list of urls, or from a text box etc. Now, we need to have 2 or 3
different versions of the same workflow just because in some cases we
process lists of urls or files in a local folder. I understand this could
be a very particular scenario but adding new and improved local services
helps a lot.
* *Taverna Server installation and easy to use web interface for users*
*
*
Best regards!
2012/7/9 Shoaib Sufi <[email protected]>
> Hi,
>
> The myGrid team, collaborators and partner projects are currently shaping
> the future plans of Taverna and we would like your input.
>
> Could you list 5 things you think Taverna got/does right and 5 things
> where we could improve/got-it-wrong.
>
> Any input will be most appreciated and yes this e-mail is for you so
> please feel free to air your feelings.
>
> Thanks and Best Regards,
> Shoaib Sufi
> myGrid Project Manager
>
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Marc Poch Riera
*UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA – BARCELONA*
*IULA* Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada
Roc Boronat 138, 08018 Barcelona
Tel. +34935422307
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