This is WebMDS, a web-based tool for browsing XML-based information (such as resource properties) about Grid services.

## Quick start

If a Globus Toolkit container is running on port 8443 of the same host on which WebMDS is running, the following links will show you some information about that Globus container:

- A list of resources registered to the local default index service. Note: this list will be empty if no services have been registered.

This distribution contains:

- The WebMDS servlet itself, which calls plugins to acquire an XML document and an XSL transform, and then applies the transform to the document.
- A set of sample forms demonstrating some of the capabilities of WebMDS, such as viewing formatted or raw XML from a variety of sources.
- Plugins to acquire XML from WSRF services (using GetResourceProperty and QueryResourceProperties requests) and from files.
- Some simple XSL files to format resource property information.

For documentation and the latest information on WebMDS, see the WebMDS section (under information services) in the Globus Toolkit documentation.