caGrid Portal 2.0.2 Released

Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:04:28 -0400
Subject: caGrid Portal 2.0.2 Released

On behalf of the caGrid Portal team, I am pleased to announce the release of caGrid Portal version 2.0.2. Enhancements in this release are focused primarily on using the caGrid semantic infrastructure to perform service discoveries and data access from multiple services.

Some of the new functionality includes:
* New query builder interface, with support for distributed caGrid Query Language (DCQL) [RFE 14931]
* Services can now be discovered using EVS concept codes [RFE 14932]
* caBIG(TM) Tools, maintained by NCI CBIIT, are now displayed within the portal [RFE 14930]
* Services that no longer advertise to the index service are removed from portal [RFE 13232]

We invite you to view these exciting enhancements at: http://cagrid-portal.nci.nih.gov


A complete list of new features, remediated defects, and known issues can be found in the release notes:
https://gforge.nci.nih.gov/frs/shownotes.php?release_id=2452

For your reference, several documentation guides were updated for this release:

Administrator Guide: https://gforge.nci.nih.gov/frs/download.php/4239/caGrid_Portal_2.0.2_AdminstratorsGuide.pdf
Installation Guide: https://gforge.nci.nih.gov/frs/download.php/4240/caGrid-Portal_2.0.2_InstallationGuide.pdf
User Guide: https://gforge.nci.nih.gov/frs/download.php/4241/caGrid-Portal_2.0.2_UsersGuide.pdf

Those wishing to deploy their own caGrid Portal can download the distribution here:
Source Code: https://gforge.nci.nih.gov/frs/download.php/4201/cagrid-portal-2.0.2.zip

Additional caGrid Portal information can be found on the caGrid wiki: http://www.cagrid.org/mwiki/index.php?title=Portal:Portal



Thank you for your interest in caGrid!