The B2SAFE service relies on iRODS to implements data policies. The implementation is based on set of operations, which we call rules. Multiple rules can be combined to form [workflows][1]. Each rule or workflow can be triggered manually, client side, or automatically, server side, setting a trigger condition in the irods configuration files (usually in the file core.re in /etc/irods). In IRODS exists an object called workflow (WSO, Workflow Structured Object), but we are not referring to that, just to a generic set of rules. Based on our definition, every set of rules, a workflow, it is a rule, but we tend to call workflows only the set of rules which become quite complex.
The B2SAFE service relies on iRODS to implements data policies. The implementation is based on set of operations, which we call rules. Multiple rules can be combined to form [workflows][1]. Each rule or workflow can be triggered manually, client side, or automatically, server side, setting a trigger condition in the irods configuration files (usually in the file core.re in /etc/irods). In iRODS exists an object called workflow (WSO, Workflow Structured Object), but we are not referring to that, just to a generic set of rules. Based on our definition, every set of rules, a workflow, it is a rule, but we tend to call workflows only the set of rules which become quite complex.
