GCore

The gCube Core Distribution

The gCube Core Distribution (gCore), is a packaging of those components of the gCube system[1] which are guaranteed to be available on each and every node of a gCube infrastructure (gHN). The distribution includes the following key components:

• the gCore container, a container for the deployment and runtime management of gCube services;
• the Local Services, a small set of gCube services which must/should/could run on each gHN;
• the gCube Core Application Framework (gCF), a code framework to simplify the development of gCube services and their clients;

gCore builds upon Globus technology. It is a repackaging of the Globus Toolkit (GT4) dedicated to gCube. In particular, the container is a customisation of the container which is distributed with GT4 (and thus the Axis container extended by it). The gCF is a substantial extension of the Java WS Core framework which is also distributed with GT4.