Abstract

Building on both Grid and Web services technologies, the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) defines mechanisms for creating, managing, and exchanging information among entities called Grid services. Succinctly, a Grid service is a Web service that conforms to a set of conventions (interfaces and behaviors) that define how a client interacts with a Grid service. These conventions, and other OGSA mechanisms associated with Grid service creation and discovery, provide for the controlled, fault resilient, and secure management of the distributed and often long-lived state that is commonly required in advanced distributed applications. In a separate document, we have presented in detail the motivation, requirements, structure, and applications that underlie OGSA. Here we focus on technical details, providing a full specification of the behaviors and Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) interfaces that define a Grid service.

Metadata

publication

Open Grid Service Infrastructure WG, Global Grid Forum, Draft 2, 2002

year

2002

publication date

2002/7

authors

J Frey, S Graham, C Kesselman

link

https://www.mcs.anl.gov/~madduri/ogsa_docs/specification.pdf

resource_link

https://www.mcs.anl.gov/~madduri/ogsa_docs/specification.pdf

journal

Open Grid Service Infrastructure WG, Global Grid Forum, Draft

volume

2