elemNs="http://glite.org/wsdl/elements/lb"
elemPrefix="lbe">
- Keeping track of state of grid jobs.
+ <para>Logging and Bookkeeping (L&B) service keeps track of grid jobs.</para>
+
+ <para>The service receives job events
+ from various components of the Workload Management System, stores
+ them, and derives then the corresponding job states.</para>
+
+ Job information is fed into LB through a~logging interface
+ (<link linkend="">legacy C and shell API</link>)
+ and it is not exposed as a web service yet.
+
+ The users may query job states or retrieve LB events either via the same C/C++
+ interface or via this web-service interface.
+
+ Besides querying for the job state actively the user may also register for
+ receiving notifications on particular job state changes.
+ This functionality is supported only in the legacy C/C++ interface.
<import namespace="http://glite.org/wsdl/services/lb" location="LBTypes.wsdl"/>