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This is a presentation of the proposed adoption of an Enterprise-wide Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for the GLAST experiment's data processing requirements. This project is composd of two parts, the GRITS Framework and the GRITS Projects that are built upon the framework. This presentation is primarily concerned with the GRITS Framework, which is a lightweight Java based distributed architecture which uses some, but not all, of the technologies from the J2EE specification.
The Currently, the GRITS Framework is completely in place, and development of the various GRITS Projects within the framework has only recently begun. The first concrete components for the Processing Pipeline (which is one of the GRITS Projects) were recently installed into production.
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