Design and implementation of a grid-enabled component container for CORBA Lightweight Components

Although Grid technology appears as a promising infrastructure for global computation and effective resource sharing, the development of Grid Applications is still based in traditional programming models such as Message Passing Interface (MPI), making it difficult to provide a good level of software reuse and productivity. Moreover, the Grid offers an environment where the component technology can be applied to a greater extent than ever, due to the intrinsic security enforced by the Grid, allowing the creation of a successful component market. Component technology accelerates software development enforcing software reuse and sharing. In this article we present CORBA-LC and the design of its Container, that manage components and provides them with non-functional aspects such as security, concurrency, distribution, load balancing, fault tolerance, replication, data-paxallelism, etc. Component implementors can thus focus only on the component functionality itself, independently of these aspects, provided by the Container. Furthermore, we identify these non-functional aspects in the Grid Computing domain and show the current status of the implementation.