Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Espresso Modeling Interface

[Jaime E . Villate]

Hi,
I'm sorry but we cannot host your project in Savannah.
We only host projects that can be used in a completely Free Software system,
without having to install any proprietary packages. Your
project depends on Java Web Start and the Globus Java CoG, which needs Swing.
Both Java Web Start and Swing are proprietary and I'm not aware of any
free substitutes.

You you can manage to make your project work with a free implementation of
Java (see: http://www.gnu.org/software/java) and without any non-free
dependencies, then you can register it here.

Cheers,
Jaime
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 01:48:07PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> Mike Dvorak <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: Espresso Modeling Interface
> System name: espresso
> This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
> 
> The Espresso Scientific Modeling Interface provides an intuitive graphical 
> front end to complex scientific models. Espresso makes it possible for 
> scientists to perform more scientific tasks without having to deal with 
> tedious and error prone script editing. Furthermore, Espresso allows 
> scientists to utilize Grid resources such as data archives and remote 
> computational resources using the Globus Java CoG kit 
> http://www.globus.org/java/cog/ and the Globus Toolkit 
> http://www.globus.org/. Espresso itself is written in Java and is 
> configurable with XML. It currently supports NCAR/PSU MM5 (with support for 
> NCAR CCSM and ANL FOAM coming soon).
> 
> The Espresso project tries to fill the gap between Grid computing and 
> scientific modeling (specifically climate modeling).  By utilizing the Globus 
> Toolkit, Espresso hopes to make use of replication catalogs for input data 
> and Globus.org\'s GridFTP high performance data transfer functionality.  We 
> hope that Espresso can be a showcase of the scientific functionality that can 
> be achieved with Grid based computing.
> 
> This project has also produced a server side component (currently written in 
> TCSH, BASH and Python).  Another goal of the project is to produce a 
> framework to write server side components for any scientific model.
> 
> The main webpage for this project is currently 
> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~dvorak/climate/
> 
> JavaDoc for the text processing component of Espresso can be found at 
> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~/dvorak/climate/espresso/
>