TABLE OF CONTENTS This appendix will guide you through the installation of the Globus Toolkit 4. Since this book only covers the Java WS Core and GSI components of the toolkit, we will only see how to set up those particular components. The official installation guide, available on the Globus website, includes instructions on how to set up other components.
Take into account that this guide is written with version 4.0 in mind. Newer versions of the toolkit (released after the book is published) might work by following these same instructions. However, to be on the safe side, please follow the official installation guide if you want to install a version newer than 4.0.
The installation guide is divided into seven sections. To be able to run the examples described in Part II you must perform all the steps described in the first five sections (up to and including Section A.5). This will involve configuring some security aspects of the toolkit (despite the fact that we don't touch on security in Part II). You should be able to complete the security configuration even if you don't know about security concepts like "certificate authorities", "certificates", etc. However, if you do want to have more information about what we are actually doing, you might want to first read Chapter 15. That chapter is written to be...
