10.5. Summary
Fundamentally, the Globus Toolkit V3 will be a Web service-based variation of Globus Toolkit 2. All components like GRAM and GridFTP will remain. But the infrastructure will change to use Web services. Globus Toolkit V3 implements Java wrappers to the Globus Toolkit 2 components and implements new functionality.
RSL and proxy certificate formats are slightly modified to adopt some new standards, but some tools or translators are provided for an easy migration from the Globus Toolkit 2 to the Globus Toolkit V3.
The Globus Toolkit V3 will provide an implementation both in Java and in C, and a client API will be provided in C, Java, and Python.
Applications developed with Globus Toolkit 2 should be easily portable to Globus Toolkit ...
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