Reflections on Programming with Grid Toolkits

Grid applications are fragile when changes to service implementations, non-functional properties or communication protocols take place. Moreover, developing Grid applications with current toolkits result in a tangling of toolkit-specific and application-specific code that makes maintenance and evolution difficult. This paper proposes solving these problems by using reflection to open up Grid toolkits, and to allow Grid applications to be developed as if they were centralised applications. This would allow changes to be handled dependably, and a clean separation between toolkit-specific and application-specific code.

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