FINS

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FINS

• Community Grids Lab
• Indiana University

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WS-Eventing

• This is a specification from Microsoft, IBM BEA
  and Sun to facilitate notifications between two
  Web Service endpoints.
• The specification can be found at
  http//www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/
  library/specification/ws-eventing/
• Leverages the WS-Addressing specification.

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FINS

• FINS provides complete support for the
  WS-Eventing specification
• This implementation provides support for a
  variety of subscription formats.
• XPath queries
• Topics
• Regular Expressions
• XML Query
• Has been deployed within the OMII 1.2 container.

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FINS What to watch for

• We will also be incorporating support for the
  entire WS-Notification suite of specifications.
• We hope to release a prototype version of this
  software in Winter 2005.