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Author: smarru
Date: Tue Oct  4 17:59:11 2011
New Revision: 1178882

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1178882&view=rev
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+Title:     Distributed Application Management
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+
+Airavata Generic Application Service Factory (GFac) facilitates users to create Web Services wrapping commandline
+applications. The generated application service WSDL interface provides input and outputs of the 
+wrapped application. GFac provides a generic framework to wrap an application as a service interface in Java. 
+This service layers separates the invocation from the communication layer supporting multiple protocol likes SOAP, REST, or JSON. 
+Thus GFac can generate a SOAP, REST or native Java interface to any command line application. Currently, Apache Airavata focuses on the 
+Axis2 and core java implementations, but is well architected to incorporate the GFac-Core into any service frameworks. 
+
+The application provider first describes the input, outputs, deployment information, temporary working directories, remote access mechanisms for 
+file transfers and job submissions and registers the information with a registry service. Once applications are registered, GFac Distributed 
+Application Management handles the file staging, Job submission, and security protocols associated with executions. 
+Furthermore, the service acts as the extensible runtime around which extensions like sharing, auditing and resource scheduling are implemented.
+
+During execution, the application schedule is determined and the input data files specified by input parameters are staged to computational host 
+and the underlying application is executed using a job submission mechanisms. Currently, Grid, Cloud, SSH and Local submissions are supported. 
+Subsequently, the framework monitors the status of remote application, and publishes frequent activity information to the event bus. 
+Once the invocation is complete, the application service tries to determine the results of the application invocation by searching the standard output 
+for user-defined patterns or by listed a pre-specified location for generated data products. The application service runtime is implemented using a 
+processing pipeline based on the Chain of Responsibility pattern, where the pipeline can be altered by inserting interceptors. 
+The resulting architecture is highly flexible and extensible, and provides the ideal architectural basis for a system that supports wide range of 
+requirements. 
+
+Some of the features of the toolkit include:
+* Inherent application life time management and the architecture allows to have large number of 
+services registered and used.
+* The Application service performs data staging supporting multiple protocols including http, scp, 
+GridFTP and S3.
+* The generated services are instrumented with detailed execution activity.
+* The toolkit supports job submissions to Local, Grid and Cloud computing resourcces.
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 # Architecture
 
   - [Airavata Overview](/airavata/architecture/overview.html)
-  - [GFac](/airavata/architecture/gfac/gfac.html)
-  - [Workflow Suite](/airavata/architecture/workflow.html)
+  - [GFac Application Management](/airavata/architecture/gfac/gfac.html)
+  - [XBaya Workflow Suite](/airavata/architecture/workflow.html)
   - [WS Messenger](/airavata/architecture/ws-messenger.html)
   - [Registry API](/airavata/architecture/registry.html)