Globus Toolkit 4 Early Access: WSRF

The soon-to-be-released Globus Toolkit 4 (GT4) (31 Jan 2005 according to the Globus Web site) features a new implementation of the Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF) [1] and the Service Notification (WSN) [2] standards. GT4 provides an API for building stateful Web services targeted to distributed heterogeneous computing environments.