g-Eclipse - Known Issues

• Firewalls:

  g-Eclipse has the same connectivity requirements as any other client software for a specific grid middleware. Therefore you will need to be able to establish outgoing TCP connections to a series of ports, and in a few cases also allow some incoming open ports. Check the middleware specific documentation for more details.

• PKCS#12 keystores loading:

  If you want to be able to use PKCS#12 formated keystores (.p12 files) then you may need to install the JCE unrestricted policy files in your Java installation:
  • download the "Java Cryptography Extension Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files" from http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads (or the corresponding site if you have another Java version)
  • unpack that file and follow the instructions in the README. You only need to copy the two policy files into the right path in your Java installation, namely: $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security
  See also the Bouncycastle documentation for more information.

• JSDL Editor Issues:

  Input field validations:

  The current implementation of the JSDL editor does not provide input field validation therefore, the user must provide correct input as per the JSDL Specification v.1.0. Input guidelines are given on the help pages of the respective JSDL editor pages.

  Additional Resources Sections Functionality:

  The Additional Resources Elements section of the Resources Page provides limited functionality.

• Workflow Component:

  There are some known synchronisation issues when performing actions on the workflow subjobs, folders, job-descriptions, etc. from different sides:
  • Adding and removing data-staging in workflow JSDLs have any changes reflected in the graphical workflow job's ports, however this behaviour is does not happen in reverse, i.e., changes in workflow ports (added or removed) are not reflected by changes in the related JSDL's data-staging information.
  • Updating a workflow JSDL will cause existing links between jobs to be broken. However, they can easily be re-connected again through using the 'Calculate Job Dependencies' action.
  • Renaming of workflow JSDLs that are linked to a graphical workflow job will cause the graphical job's reference to the JSDL file to be removed.
  • Renaming the .workflow folder or enclosed .workflow file will cause errors if both folder and file are of different names.

• Putting Grid Projects into Subversion:

  If you want to share your grid projects using Subversion we recommend to use Subclipse as SVN plugin. Subversive tries to handle linked filesystems (e.g. grid filesystem connections) like local resources and fails in accessing them.