ZipCode Service

Description

The ZipCode Service web service that determines the latitude and longitude for a zip code's centroid.

Another aspect of this project was to determine the proper method for creating trust between two nodes.

In order to create trust the service creator provides the client with all of the .0 and .signing_policy files for

the grid node where the service resides. The client provides the service provider with user credential information,

in the form of

URL(s)

https://phgrid2.chpc.utah.edu:8443/wsrf/services/cagrid/ZipCode

Access

The ZipCode service is a secure grid service, please contact the service owner Dr. Ron Price.

Location of Source Code

The source code is located on the phgrid sourceforge project space.

http://phgrid.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/phgrid/ZipCode/

Steps for running the command-line client

The following steps need to be taken to run the command-line client:

  1. Download the ZipCode project from the phgrid repository
  2. Open a command window and switch to the project directory for ZipCode
  3. Type grid-proxy-init at the command prompt. This will generate the necessary grid credentials.
  4. Type antRunClient at the command prompt