GridDeploy: a toolkit for deploying applications as grid services

In grid computing environments it is common practice to use grid middleware as the intermediate layer between end user/application and existing functionalities available on the resources. The purpose of this paper is to introduce GridDeploy, a toolkit for automatically deploying programs as grid services and providing the necessary infrastructure for users´ applications to invoke these services directly and transparently. Two different strategies for deployment of grid services are proposed: one exploits semantics of programs stored in a repository and converts them into Application-Specific grid services; the other one provides support for creation and invocation of general grid services for general applications that don´t require permanent deployment.