Open Source Distributed Computing Software

The STEP Framework is a multi-layer Java enterprise application framework with support for Web Applications (Servlet/JSP) and Web Services.

A PHP Client Library for beanstalkd. BeanStalk allows PHP developers to make use of the beanstalkd in-memory workqueue server (http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd).

Tpl makes it easy to serialize your C data using just a handful of API functions. The data is stored in its native binary form for maximum efficiency. C, Perl and XML supported. Data is portable across CPU types and OS's from Unix to Mac to Windows.

Af-Arch is an Open Source N-tier framework to build distribuited applications. Its license schema allows Open Source and commercial (closed source) applications. This is the foundation to build an new set of applications in a fast and reliable way.

Software originally realised by the Grid research project Akogrimo (http:/www.mobilegrids.org) working on integrating network capabilities with Grid Middleware. Selected topics are Context Management, SIP/SOAP integration, Semantic workflows, ...

AlchemySOAP is a C++ SOAP 1.1/1.2 protocol stack, licensed under the LGPL. It is fast, standards compliant, includes many automated unit/interop tests and other notable features (optional SSL and DOM support, etc.). AlchemySOAP is a fork of the EasySoap+

Bionanny is a tool for Web Services providers. It allows to monitor other Web Services. It can intercept requests incoming from clients, pass it to the destination Web Service and log number of requests and elapsed time spend by services.

The Citizen Privacy Service is an asynchronous component using artificial intelligence capabilities including DL decidability and first order logic provenance that provide policy decision and policy enforcement points based on the US Privacy Act of 1974.

DynamiCoS is a framework to support user-centric service composition. It uses semantic web techniques to describe and discover services, which then are used in compositions that aim at satisfying user objectives. The current version is still an alpha version. Further developments are to be released soon.

The Instrument Element is a Grid/Cloud component that provides the computational/data Grid with an abstraction of real instruments, and Users with a more interactive interface to control them. More information: http://instrumentelem.sourceforge.net/

Jbi4ejb is a JBI compliant Binding Component that allows existing EJB to interact with a JBI ESB. EJB operations can be called from the ESB without the need to modify or even redeploy the EJB.

Generated Java glue code for accessing RPC end-points on OpenAutonomy servers.

Poor Man's HPC is a framework that allows distributing and running code on a server farm. pmHPC is a scaled down and simplified version of distributed computing projects such as SETI, so is a perfect fit for enthusiasts and universities.

A service-oriented, single-source, Java integration server with virtual Service Stores(TM) that expose services via web services, HTTP and more. Service Flows provide process automation. Mainframe, database, email, web, soap & ftp adapters are included.

soapgateway is a software element for the integration of clients and servers in a SOA environment. Roughly, it redirectes SOAP requests targeted to it, to the real webservers that offer the services, applying load-balance and authentication policies

The Secure Mobile Agents (SeMoA) platform constitutes a secure runtime environment for Java-based mobile software agents.

Java-based security platform which provides a multi-user service middleware for distributed systems. Features: service environment, Shell-based interaction, user authentication (password, soft-token, smard-card), policy enforcement, Web services support

Spyse is a software framework for building multi-agent systems. It allows Python developers to build distributed intelligent systems of multiple cooperative agents based on FIPA, OWL, SOA and many others. Spyse is designed for ease-of-use and fun.

Web Objects in XML (Framework) is an interoperable and lightweight system for distributed objects. It is currently built in Java and C#. Remote objects are serialized in a standard XML format, and they are accessible trough their own URL.

An implementation model for unifying Aspect Oriented Programming and Service Oriented Architecture.

Web Services Interoperability Profile Environment is a toolkit for managing and using "service profiles" needed for SOA realisation. Core is an inheritance resolver library, used by a document generator and conformance test suite generator.

mod_gsoap is an Apache module that allows Apache to serve SOAP requests via the Gsoap library. Modules are available for both Apache 1.3 and 2.x.

osESB is a free, open source Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) designed to run on a Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application server.

A highly modular client remote/web services library written in Python supporting multiple protocols and transports through a unified interface. All modules are as independent as possible from each other to ensure high re-usability.

Samizdat is a toolkit for Java for building Kerberos secured distributed, message-oriented applications. The toolkit contains base classes that simplifies the management of Kerberos login contexts as well as flexibly sign and seal messages between principals using the Java GSS API. The toolkit contains Transformation classes for Kerberizing JMS traffic as well as a super-lean HTTP based protocol stack that supports both Synchronous (RPC) and Asynchronous modalities.