FileTransfer Portlet Build Error

We have gotten some reports that the filetransfer portlet does not compile correctly on some machines. You will get an error like the one below.


[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Compilation failure
/opt/ogce-portal-only/portlets/filetransfer/src/main/java/xportlets/gridftp/GridFTPClientAction.java:[1046,10] putFile(java.lang.String,java.lang.String) in org.globus.cog.abstraction.interfaces.FileResource cannot be applied to (java.lang.String,java.lang.String,)


This portlet is obsolete and uses an obsolete Java COG API, so it should be disabled. As a workaround, simply delete or comment out the line

<module>portlets/filetransfer</module>

from ogce-portal-only/pom.xml. We will provide a minor update release to fix this bug.

Expeditious Job Submission with Condor Birdbath

You need to call the rescheduler to force jobs to run right away when using Birdbath. Code snippet is

....
xact.submit(clusterId, jobId, userName, universeType,
 executable,arguments,"(TRUE)",
 extraAttributes, null);
xact.commit();

//Magic line is below.
schedd.requestReschedule();

This assumes you have otherwise edited condor_config to run jobs right away (changed UWCS to TESTINGMODE). See the OGCE condor-job-submission portlet for the full code. Thanks to Sangmi for pointing this out.