Introduce

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.

Software Downloads

Introduce software can be downloaded here.

Project Researchers

David Ervin (Principal Investigator)
Shannon Hastings, M.S. (Principal Investigator)
Stephen Langella, M.S. (Principal Investigator)
Scott Oster, M.S. (Principal Investigator)

Project Publications