Chapter 8. Developing a portal

We have mentioned multiple times that the likely user interface to grid applications will be through portals, specifically Web portals. This chapter shows what such a portal might look like and provides the sample code required to create it.

The assumption is that the grid-specific logic, such as job brokers, job submission, and so on, has already been written and is available as Java or C/C++ programs that can simply be called from this portal. A few examples of integrating Globus calls with the grid portal are shown.

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