Automatic conversion of legacy applications into services in BeesyCluster

The paper presents a solution and a tool for automatic, fast and easy adaptation of legacy Unix applications into services in BeesyCluster. The latter is a middleware that allows users to access distributed servers and clusters via WWW/Web services. Each BeesyCluster user can publish own applications as services and define access policies to such services to make them available to others. Such services can be composed into scientific or business workflows. To offer a wider selection of services, our solution retrieves information from Linux packages such as deb and rpm to automatically register applications as services in BeesyCluster making it a platform with a large registry containing thousands of services. Furthermore, we show a mechanism for searching for services based on a text query formulated by the user.