Analysis of Grid Service Composition with BPEL4WS

  • Authors:
  • Kuo-Ming Chao;Muhammad Younas;Nathan Griffiths;Irfan Awan;Rachid Anane;C.-F. Tsai

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • AINA '04 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

The Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI) definesa distributed system framework by integrating Grid andWeb services technologies to facilitate resource sharing.In OGSI, Web services are supplemented with additionalfeatures in order to meet the requirements of Gridcomputing. However, the issue of Grid servicecomposition is not well addressed in the OGSIframework. We apply BPEL4WS (Business ProcessExecution Language for Web Services) as a businessworkflow description language for the composition ofGrid services. We provide an in depth analysis ofBPEL4WS and OGSI in terms of their similarities anddifferences in areas such as life cycle management, Webservice instantiation and instance group management.Based on our analysis we propose a high-levelarchitecture to compliment OGSI with BPEL4WS fordefining process workflow among Grid services. Wedescribe a prototype system which shows how theproposed architecture can be used in modelling ororchestrating Grid services with BPEL4WS.