The first part of a new series of tutorials on building a grid application based on standardized web services like WSRM (Reliable Messaging) and WS-Security. The first part is an overview of the grid application (a movie storage system) and looks at the standards and how they will be used within the grid.

The tutorial is currently top pick on the IBM devWorks site:

This is a joint venture between myself and Tyler Anderson who has written a few of the other tutorials and articles I’ve written for IBM. Tyler has provided the code, based on my design guidelines and thoughts for the grid, but all the words are mine.

You can read the first part of the tutorial through this link.