Service Oriented Architecture and Distributed Computing using LASAGNE

With the adoption of a service oriented architectural (SOA) approach to application development within defence there is a need to provide architectural guidance coupled with infrastructure mechanisms to assist developers through the implementation process. Applications developed under a SOA approach are more akin to an assemblage rather than the more traditional development methodology of construct and execute. There is a growing collection of common services that are available for the tactical defence environment. However there exists the need to manage the availability of these services and their usage by applications through a common approach to infrastructure, configuration and deployment.