Apache Airavata XBaya - README.txt
Licensed under Apache License 2.0 - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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About
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Apache Airavata, a software framework to executing and managing computational jobs on 
distributed computing resources including local clusters, supercomputers, national grids, 
academic and commercial clouds. Airavata can be used as individual components or 
as an integrated solution to build science gateways or general-purpose distributed 
application and workflow management systems. Users can use Airavata back end services 
and build gadgets to deploy in open social containers such as Apache Rave and modify them 
to suit their needs. Airavata builds on general concepts of service oriented computing, 
distributed messaging, and workflow composition and orchestration.

This distribution is a client gui application capable of composing workflows, application 
descriptors & communicating with the airavata server to persist user data, run & monitor 
experiments and analyze the results.

Release Notes
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0.7 is the sixth release of Airavata (skipped 0.1-INCUBATNG). This release focuses GFac rearchitecturing and more GFac level changes. For detailed tasks list, please see RELEASE_NOTES.

Building from source
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For brief installation instructions, see INSTALL
For detailed installation and further instructions refer http://airavata.apache.org/ - Documentation section in left hand panel. Step by step with proper documentation are provided.

Known Issues in This Release
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This is the base release and is focused on a good foundation and less on features. This 
version is not recommended for production usage.

Airavata XBaya Distribution Directory Structure
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    AIRAVATA_XBAYA
		├── bin
		│   ├── airavata-client.properties
		│   ├── log4j.properties
		│   ├── setenv.bat
		│   ├── setenv.sh
		│   ├── xbaya-gui.bat
		│   └── xbaya-gui.sh
		├── lib
		├── samples
		├── INSTALL
		├── LICENSE
		├── NOTICE
		└── README

How to test and run samples
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* If you built Airavata from source, and if you see "BUILD SUCCESS", then the test cases should have passes.
* The test cases are beyond unit level, they startup embedded services and run through basic workflow use cases.
* To walk through Airavata features, follow "Airavata in Five Minutes" tutorial at http://airavata.apache.org/documentation/tutorials/airavata-in-5-minutes.html
* For intermediate level Airavata features, follow "Airavata in Ten Minutes" tutorial at http://airavata.apache.org/documentation/tutorials/airavata-in-10-minutes.html 
* For advanced use cases, please contact mailing lists - http://airavata.apache.org/community/mailing-lists.html

Description of Directory Structure
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    - bin
      This contains the configuration files for Airavata XBaya & the scripts to run XBaya GUI Application.

    - samples
      This contains sample scripts to define the sample descriptor in http://airavata.apache.org/documentation/tutorials/airavata-in-10-minutes.html

    - lib
      This contains all the libraries required to run the client side code with the jars required to run XBaya GUI.

    - README
      This document.

    - INSTALL
          This document will contain information on installing Apache-Airavata XBaya.

Other Available Distributions
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Server Distributions
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* Airavata Server
  The Airavata Server binary distribution allows you to run a standalone Airavata Server which includes all the airavata services 
  shipped with a default derby database as the backend registry. For stable purposes, a mysql configuration is recommended. 

* Airavata Server Web Application
  This is similar package as the Airavata Server but is distributed as the server Web Application archive.
  This war is compatible with Apache Tomcat application server. The war bundles all airavata services 
  enabled by defualt to startup a derby database as the backend registry. For stable purposes, a mysql configuration is recommended. 

Client Distributions
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* Airavata XBaya
  The Airavata XBaya distribution is a client GUI application with features to register applications as web services, construct workflows,
  execute and monitor workflows and browse the generated results from the airavata registry.

* Airavata XBaya JNLP
  The Airavata XBaya JNLP distribution is the simular GUI distribution but prepackeged to be ready to be deployed to 
   a web server as a web start application. The GUI provides features to register applications as web services, construct workflows,
  execute and monitor workflows and browse the generated results from the airavata registry.