The project aims at providing handy and efficient methodologies and tools to provide and use components on a Grid, understanding components in this case as an “evolved” versions of services. The main objectives of this project is the design and development of an advanced programming framework prototype based on components and supporting effective Grid programming.
Overall, the platform will support as much as possible the invisible Grid concept. It will provide a system component layer hosting all the components that explicitly deal with Grid features and issues, and it will also provide the facilities needed to seamlessly deploy and use components on the Grid and by interacting with the main European Grid middleware aimed at deployment. The component platform prototype developed within the project will be used to experiment the implementation of several real use case applications, coming from different contexts.