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This chapter presents a universal architecture for porting legacy code to Web service environments. We provide a detailed analysis of the proposed solution and characterize it in the context of fundamental Grid requirements. The architecture is evaluated on the basis of such criteria like performance, security, scalability, and fault tolerance. Our solution provides support for process migration, checkpointing, and transactional processing. Both concurrent and asynchronous method-invocation patterns are supported. In addition, we describe a framework that was developed to facilitate the use of the proposed architecture. It reduces implementation effort by automatic code generation. Finally, we present performance evaluation results.
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Baliś, B., Bubak, M., Wegiel, M. (2005). A Solution for Adapting Legacy Code as Web Services. In: Getov, V., Kielmann, T. (eds) Component Models and Systems for Grid Applications. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23352-0_4
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