Patent ID: 7509412

Claim:
A method for evaluating system behavior of an application domain within a grid environment comprising the steps of: identifying a host software object operating within a computing resource of said application domain, said computing resource within one grid of said grid environment; associating a ghost software object located within said one grid to said host software object, wherein said associated ghost software object replicates actions of said host software executed within said one grid, and wherein said associated ghost software object records said replicated actions; transferring said host software object from said computing resource in said one grid within said grid environment to another computing resource, said another resource within another grid within said grid environment; and, responsive to transferring said host object to said another grid, transferring said associated ghost software object from said one grid to said another grid, wherein said associated ghost software object replicates said host software actions within said another grid, and wherein said associated ghost software object records said replicated actions in said another grid.