Interactive and descriptor-based deployment of object-oriented grid applications

• Published in: 11th International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-11 2002) pp. 93 - 102
• Main Authors: Baude, F., Caromel, D., Huet, F., Mestre, L., Vayssiere, J.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2002
• Subjects: Application software; Distributed computing; Java; Libraries; Mobile computing; Monitoring; Object oriented programming; Parallel programming; Virtual machining; Visualization
• ISBN: 0769516866; 9780769516868
• ISSN: 1082-8907
• DOI: 10.1109/HPDC.2002.1029907

Increasing complexity of distributed applications and commodity of resources through grids are making the tasks of deploying those applications harder. There is a clear need for standard tools allowing versatile deployment and analysis of distributed applications. We present here a solution for the deployment and monitoring of applications written using ProActive, an experimental Java-based library for concurrent, distributed and mobile computing. We describe the use of XML-based descriptor for the deployment part of a distributed application and the use of IC2D (Interactive Control and Debugging of Distribution), for the monitoring and steering of the running application. Those ideas, concepts, and experiments are a contribution towards the construction of integrated environments for component-based grid programming.