Vine Toolkit

Vine Toolkit is an open source software framework that is used to create Grid-aware web applications.[1]

Vine Toolkit
Developer(s)Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
Stable release
2.0 / March 31, 2015 (2015-03-31)
Written inJava
Operating systemCross-platform
Typesoftware framework
LicenseApache License Version 2.0
Websitehttp://vinetoolkit.psnc.pl

Usage

According to the Vine Toolkit web site:

"Vine is a modular, extensible Java library that offers developers an easy-to-use, high-level Application Programmer Interface (API) for Grid-enabling applications. Vine can be deployed for use in desktop, Java Web Start, Java Servlet and Java Portlet environments with ease." [2]

According to the Vine Toolkit project page, Vine case be used to:

  • Create web application based on Flex technologies.
  • Add Grid context to the web components with the relevant plugins.
  • Abstract different middlewares implementation details. That allows user to create his application once and execute it on every supported middleware.

In its basic form ( without any additional plugins ) it could be perceived as a MVC framework.[3]

Architecture

One of the key concepts in Vine is its plug-in based structure:

"The Vine Toolkit consists of a core project that defines a base API and programming model upon which sub projects are built. Each sub project addresses a particular problem area. Some, like the Grid Vine, build upon core Vine to define more general concepts and extensible elements. Others, like the Globus Toolkit 4 Vine, are concerned with adding support for particular third party libraries and services. Each project conforms to a particular file structure that defines how source code is built as well as how third party libraries and configuration files are packaged and deployed." [4]

Platforms

Since Vine is Java and Flex based framework it works with all major platforms including Windows, Unix and Mac Os. On top of that Vine offers several deployment scenarios:

  • Integration with the Gridsphere portlet container.[5]
  • Integration with the Liferay portal.
  • Web service instance.
  • Standalone (console) application.

Release history
  • Vine Toolkit 1.0 – May 2008
  • Vine Toolkit 1.1 – October 2009
  • Vine Toolkit 1.2 – April 2010
  • Vine Toolkit 1.3 - April 2011
  • Vine Toolkit 2.0 - March 2015

References
  1. "IT-Tude.com Vine Toolkit entry".
  2. "Vine Toolkit information".
  3. "Blog entry describing Vine as MVC framework".
  4. Russell, Michael; Dziubecki, Piotr; Grabowski, Piotr; Krysinśki, Michal; Kuczyński, Tomasz; Szjenfeld, Dawid; Tarnawczyk, Dominik; Wolniewicz, Gosia; Nabrzyski, Jaroslaw (2008). "The Vine Toolkit: A Java Framework for Developing Grid Applications". Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. 4967: 331–340. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-68111-3_35. ISBN 978-3-540-68105-2.
  5. "Gridsphere integration with Vine Toolkit".
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.