A SOA-based business Grid solution

Nowadays, Grid computing is moving from sharing computing power and storage resources to sharing business resources, including any abstract business entities and resources. The new trend brings a big challenge, since these universal business resources typically do not belong to the same level. Describing them is already difficult; describing them in a unified way is even more difficult. Business process requires runtime coordination, asynchronous integration, notifications, and state and transaction management. The present Grid solutions generally lack a way to quickly and easily interact and integrate with external business processes and services provided by different localized Grids using a secure, affordable, and manageable approach. Therefore, this paper presents flexible solution framework to enable business resource sharing within and across organizational boundaries in a secure and manageable fashion.