Towards a Generic Framework for Deploying Applications as Grid Services

Simona Arustei, Mitica Craus, Alexandru Archip

2008

Abstract

Exploiting the power of the grid very often involves transforming existing or new applications into grid services. In this paper we present a generic framework based on a service oriented architecture developed in order to simplify the task of deploying applications as grid services. Our work consists of a configurable grid service that provides application developers with a high level programming model, hiding the complexity of dealing with web services and grid technologies. The architectural design of the framework allows custom functionality to be plugged into an adaptive grid service in a simple manner, thus attracting more non-expert users to the grid. A prototype implementation of the framework has been built and a case study has been developed to illustrate the concept.

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in Harvard Style

Arustei S., Craus M. and Archip A. (2008). Towards a Generic Framework for Deploying Applications as Grid Services . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing - Volume 1: ACT4SOC, (ICSOFT 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-55-5, pages 17-26. DOI: 10.5220/0001898800170026


in Bibtex Style

@conference{act4soc08,
author={Simona Arustei and Mitica Craus and Alexandru Archip},
title={Towards a Generic Framework for Deploying Applications as Grid Services},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing - Volume 1: ACT4SOC, (ICSOFT 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={17-26},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001898800170026},
isbn={978-989-8111-55-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing - Volume 1: ACT4SOC, (ICSOFT 2008)
TI - Towards a Generic Framework for Deploying Applications as Grid Services
SN - 978-989-8111-55-5
AU - Arustei S.
AU - Craus M.
AU - Archip A.
PY - 2008
SP - 17
EP - 26
DO - 10.5220/0001898800170026