Component-oriented development is a software design methodology which enables users to build large scale Grid systems by integrating independent and possibly distributed software modules (components), via well defined interfaces, into higher level components. The main benefit from such an approach is improved productivity, firstly, by abstracting away network level functionalities, thus reducing the technical demands, secondly, by combining components into higher level components, component libraries can be built up incrementally and made available for reuse. The development platform, which is tightly integrated with Eclipse software framework, was designed to empower the developer with all the tools necessary to compose, deploy, monitor, and steer Grid applications. In the first part of this report, we present
our design for the final tuned version of an integrated development environment for Grids (GIDE) to support component-oriented development, deployment, monitoring, and steering of large-scale Grid applications. The second part consists of a manual for the installation and application of the GIDE.

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