Title:     Generic Application Service Factory
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Generic Application Service Factory facilitates users to create Web Services wrapping commandline
applications. The generated application service WSDL interface provides input and outputs of the 
wrapped application.

Some of the features of the toolkit include:
* Inherent application life time management and the architecture allows to have large number of 
services registered and used.
* The Application service performs data staging supporting multiple protocols including http, scp, 
GridFTP and S3.
* The generated services are instrumented with detailed execution activity.
* The toolkit supports job submissions to Local, Grid and Cloud computing resourcces.