Agile properties of service oriented architectures for network enabled capability.
Lu Liu, Duncan J. Russell, Jie Xu, John K. Davies, Ken Irvin · 2008
Network Enabled Capability (NEC) is the U.K. Ministry of Defence’s response to the quickly changing conflict environment in which its forces must operate. In NEC, assets need to be integrated in context, to assist in human activity and provide dependable inter-operation. Different from traditional system engineering for the development of hardware equipments or software engineering for the development of software systems, NEC raises new challenges not only for service development on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), but also for dynamic discovery and integration of services in order to provide dependable and sustainable military capability. In this paper we introduce and discuss our research work in the NECTISE (NEC Through Innovative Systems Engineering) project with a focus on the use of agile methodologies to adapt to changes occurring in the process of service development, service discovery and service integration. We demonstrate through examples how to enable agile SOA for NEC.