Unrestricted.2016-11-142011-02-182016-11-142006-08http://hdl.handle.net/2346/14441With growing use of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), legacy programs should be reused, published and provisioned as services in metacomputing (grid) environments. This thesis will present a generic service wrapping and provisioning framework (SWAPS). Via SWAPS, the service wrapper to the legacy application can be generated on-the-fly and can be autonomic provisioned in the grid computing environments as a service provider. SWAPS is designed and developed on the base of SORCER/JINI/RIO technologies.application/pdfengWrappingProvisioningService-oriented architecture (SOA)Thesis