Activities:

• Arrived in Mexico and met with our local advisor, Dr. Hector Duran, to discuss expectations, work location, etc
• Met with Isabel Corvera to complete paperwork for student ID's, take tour of the campus, and be informed of bus routes/etc necessary for our travel between the university and our housing
• Reviewed code from a prior exploration of the WRF Portal's intended GUI
• Determined the general progression a user will make through the web portal in order to submit/retrieve a job and what GUIs should be available to them
• Discussed requirements and expectations of the system for the SRS
• Began looking into BPEL for communication between the Portal and the JFM

Accomplishments:

• Submitted SRS to Konstantinos for approval

Issues/Problems:

Some minor problems are occuring when I try to access the webpage and/or database from Mexico.  Once our new server location is up and running I will try our workaround to see if it works.

The primary problem is one that is easily fixed, and that is my lack of knowledge in the web service domain.  I am unfamiliar with a lot of the tools being mentioned and will need to train myself in their use.  My concern is that I am missing steps in the process, such as with BPEL, where I do not realize it is necessary until it comes up in a discussion later. 

Plans:

Short-term:

• Compile a list of tools necessary to learn, and possibly use this list to break down the tasks for the web portal between Sean and I.
• Settle on a complete GUI for our portion of the system, to use as a reference
• Discuss the necessary fields/etc for the database, and speak with Seychelles and Elias once they are settled on what they need

Long-term:

• Produce a 'dummy' version of the portal that will visually introduce all the functionality, but will not interact with the JFM just yet, and once completed begin adding functionality to it such as:
  • Interaction with the database
  • Sessioning
  • Uploading jobs
  • Downloading results
  • Sending/retrieving jobs between the portal and JFM
  • Capability to visualize the results