Welcome to the OGSA-DAI user guide. OGSA-DAI is a middleware product which allows data resources, such as relational or XML databases, to be exposed on to Grids. Various interfaces are provided and many popular database management systems are supported. The software also includes a collection of components for querying, transforming and delivering data in different ways, and a simple toolkit for developing client applications. OGSA-DAI is designed to be extensible, so users can add their own additional functionality.
For the "hands-on" user, feel free to jump straight into Installing OGSA-DAI WSI.
This section provides background information that will be useful to know prior to installing OGSA-DAI. Several important concepts are introduced, such as activities and perform documents. If you are new to OGSA-DAI, you should start here.
This section contains guidelines for using OGSA-DAI WSRF in various ways. In addition to this information, users may wish to refer to the Usage Scenarios page on the OGSA-DAI website which includes best practice recommendations.
This section contains information for developers wishing to extend the functionality of OGSA-DAI in some way. OGSA-DAI contains various extensibility points, where new functionality can be "plugged-in". A familiarity with Java programming and XML-Schema is required.
This section provides quick links to the most useful reference information for client developers and service providers.
The OGSA-DAI project home page (ogsadai.org.uk) contains the latest advisories as well as support facilities and information about forthcoming training courses and tutorials.
Please help us to keep this user guide up to date. If you have any suggestions for improvements, or spot any typos, inconsistencies or errors, then let us know by contacting the OGSA-DAI team at http://bugs.ogsadai.org.uk.
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