Introduction

K-Wf Grid application portal provides convenient web based user interface for the tools and applications being developed in the context of the K-Wf Grid project.

Users with valid portal account can access various portal sections focused on K-Wf Grid’s applications and associated knowledge, application monitoring and grid services.

The portal is built on the Gridsphere portal framework. The framework is an implementation of a portlet paradigm defined in JSR-168 Portlet API Specification – portlets are self-contained components generating just part of the portal page, independent from each other that are pluggable into the portal. The Gridsphere framework provides the environment for running the portlets, portlet state management, session management and various other tasks. The gist of the K-Wf Grid portal development lies in the development of the portlets providing user interfaces to various K-Wf Grid software components.

The following table shows the portal structure:

GroupPanelPortlet
AppicationsControl panel GWUI portlet

UAA portlet

Task list

Workflow control
Workflow statusScheduler status
Workflow historyWorkflow history
Workflow composition WCT execution

WCT configure
DiscussionDiscussion groups
DataData browser
Log viewerLog view
KnowledgeKnowledge browserGOM browser
Ontology alignmentOntal
KAA serviceKAA service
Service descriptionsWSDL2OWL
Performance monitoring

and analysis
Workflow PMAWorkflow performance monitoring and analysis
Infrastructure PMA Workflow performance monitoring and analysis

Monitoring service configuration

Data query and subscription

Error messages

Display data

Implementation State

K-Wf portlets are deployed in the K-Wf Grid Portal. More inforamation can be found in user manual.

Acknowledgements

This work has been partially financed by the EU within the project IST-2004-511385 K-Wf Grid and Slovak national projects, APVT-51-024604; Tools for acquisition, organization and maintenance of knowledge in an environment of heterogeneous information resources, SPVV 1025/04 and VEGA No. 2/6103/6.