Administration
Introduce
The caGrid Service Creation Toolkit
A number of tools and middleware systems have been developed to support application development using Grid Services frameworks. Most of these efforts, however, have focused on the low-level support for management and execution of Grid services, management of Grid-enabled resources, and deployment and execution of applications that make use of Grid services. Simple-to-use service development tools, which will allow a Grid service developer to leverage Grid technologies without needing to know low-level details, are becoming increasingly important. Moreover, support for development of strongly-typed services, in which data types consumed and produced by a service are well-defined and published in the Grid, is necessary to enable syntactic interoperability so that two Grid endpoints can interact with each other programmatically and correctly.
Introduce is an open-source, extensible toolkit to support easy development and deployment of WS/WSRF compliant Grid services. Introduce aims to reduce the service development and deployment effort by hiding low-level details of the Globus Toolkit
and to enable the implementation of strongly-typed Grid services. We expect that enabling strongly-typed grid services while lowering the difficulty of entry to the Grid via toolkits like Introduce will have a major impact to the success of the Grid and its wider adoption as a viable technology of choice, not only in the commercial sector but also in other areas such as academic, medical, and government research.
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