[Myexperiment-discuss] Re: [MYGRID] Triana review (third sending)

[Carole Goble]

Alan

thanks - the workflow as a web service is also a feature of Inforsense.
the configurability is important too.

Triana are partners for myExperiment

Carole

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> Triana 2.2.3 review
>
> 1 Installation
>
> Very easy.  It downloads and after an initial ant problem works OK.
>
> 2 Documentation
>
> In-built help facility is very useful.
>
> Includes tutorials on how to do things.  It was very simple to get a
> workflow entered and running.  It was nicely interactive, set a value
> on a wave generator, see the result in a virtual oscilloscope.
>
> 3 Workflow creation
>
> Tree of known services.  Added to a graphical representation of the workflow.
>
> Can set to auto-connect the ports added service to their most likely
> connection.  No idea what the algorithm is, but for the idiotic
> workflows I tried it got the connections right.  If it stopped getting
> them right then it can be switched off.
>
> Can get a large document about individual services by right-clicking.
> Also can configure the running of the service.
>
> 4 Available services
>
> In-built Java classes.  Can add new classes (I think) and also use
> workflows as services (I think).  Can scavenge WSDL services and
> possibly grid services.
>
> 5 Service grouping
>
> Can group sets of services in a workflow to create a new workflow.  An
> instance of the new workflow is automatically included in the original
> one.  Can configure the new workflow.
>
> 6 Workflow publication
>
> Workflows can be published as web services.
>
> 7 Service discovery
>
> Can search over a UDDI registry for a matching WSDL service.  I didn't
> manage to get this working.
>
> 8 Grid ability
>
> Has in-built capability to run workflows over a Grid.  I didn't get to
> try this out.
>
> 9 Configurability
>
> It feels like it is more configurable than Taverna.  Little things
> like being able to change the colour for display made me feel in
> control.
>
> 10 Provenance
>
> I didn't see anything for this.
>
> 11 Interoperability
>
> Appears to read and write EGEE and GriPhyn workflows.
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> Summary
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> Taverna is (by comparison) missing:
>
> 1 Help documentation
> 2 In-built tutorial
> 3 Graphical interface
> 4 Auto-connect
> 5 Workflow grouping
> 6 Workflow publication as web-service
> 7 UDDI search
> 8 In-built grid capability
> 9 Read/write other formats
> 10 User-pleasing configurability
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