A Grid Service Lifecycle Management Scheme

Grid technologies enable large-scale sharing of computing resources and make them open to formal or informal consortia of individuals, who utilize these computing resources by means of consuming Grid Services. In such context, a more mature mechanism of Grid Service management, not only on the creation and destruction of Grid Service instances but also on the whole lifecycle of Grid Services, is brought up in this paper. Hosting environments incorporated with this mechanism are more flexible and powerful to support Grid Service provisioning, such as clone of overloaded services and automatic recovery of failed services. A Grid Service naming convention, security consideration in this mechanism and our implementation of the mechanism are also presented in this paper