Grid and Open Standards
As with autonomic computing, grid computing is based on an open set of standards and protocols that enable communication across heterogeneous, geographically dispersed environments in a seamless fashion. As we have already identified in Chapter 9, the importance of open standards for new technologies, such as autonomic computing and grids, cannot be overemphasized.
Grid computing is open standards-based technology. It uses SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), a standard for establishing the ground rules of communication interfaces; WSDL (Web Services Description Language), a standard to describe the services used in the network; and XML (Extensible Markup Language) for the common format/syntax language for sharing information. ...
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