An Aspect-oriented Approach to Developing a Teleworking Grid

The field of teleworking is one which can be closely linked to the development of virtual environments. The aim of these environments is to create widely distributed applications to support the communication and collaboration of workers in a virtual office or virtual community. To that extent, there appears to be much in common with the field of grid computing which itself aims to support distributed resources and users in virtual organisations through a service-oriented architecture. In this paper we explore the similarities between these fields and the potential offered by grid computing. We also examine some of the potential limitations in the way that grid services are currently developed, and propose an alternative strategy making use of aspect oriented programming (AOP) to enable the creation of fully dynamic services to support the needs of an agile user base