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Interaction specification

• User (or another client) calls BDM (Bulk Data Mover) to copy files
• User provides a pair of source directory/files location (source URL) and target directory/files location (target URL), and estimated total size (optional)
• BDM returns a "request_token"
• BDM returns time estimate to completion (only if estimated total size was provided)
• Default is that checksum is checked. Option to disable checksum checks
• User calls BDM to find out status of request
• User provides "request_token"
• BDM returns total size and number of files already moved, total size and number of files remaining, and time estimate to completion.
• User calls BDM to restart a previous failed request
• User provides "request_token"
• BDM returns total size and number of files already moved, total size and number of files remaining, and time estimate to completion
• User calls BDM to abort request
• User provides "request_token"

Input XML Validation

• libxml2 was used to validate the XSD and sample XML files
• e.g. xmllint --noout --schema bdm_input.xsd sample1.xml

Java API

• Limitations
  • There must be only one active request at a time for the same instance (per DB).
• Sample compilation

• CLASSPATH=.:${BDM_HOME}/lib/bdm.jar:
  ${BDM_HOME}/lib/util.jar
  :${BDM_HOME}/lib/h2/h2-1.1.118.jar
  :${BDM_HOME}/lib/globus/cog-jglobus-1.7.0.jar
  :${BDM_HOME}/lib/globus/cog-url-1.7.0.jar
  :${BDM_HOME}/lib/globus/commons-logging-1.1.jar
  :${BDM_HOME}/lib/globus/cryptix-asn1.jar
  :${BDM_HOME}/lib/globus/cryptix.jar
  :${BDM_HOME}/lib/globus/cryptix32.jar
  :${BDM_HOME}/lib/globus/jce-jdk13-131.jar
  :${BDM_HOME}/lib/globus/jgss.jar
  :${BDM_HOME}/lib/globus/junit.jar
  :${BDM_HOME}/lib/globus/log4j-1.2.15.jar
  :${BDM_HOME}/lib/globus/puretls.jar
  :${BDM_HOME}/lib/globus/xercesImpl.jar 
  javac -classpath $CLASSPATH BDMClientAPISample.java