Organization responsible: Thales, The Netherlands

People involved:

• Maurice Glandrup, Thales

Project description:

Future Combat Management Systems (CMS) that are produced by Thales-Hengelo have to cooperate with other CMSs. This makes future CMSs network centric systems. Network centric systems are grid systems, since the resources of the available systems are used to accomplish tasks. The objective of this activity is to develop a CMS architecture for network centric systems.

In addition to the characteristics of the current architecture of CMSs as produced by Thales-Hengelo, a new architecture must, at least have, the following characteristics:

• Increased reuse of components that implement the system behavior.
• Decreased development and deployment costs.
• Compose the system at design, compile, and run-time. Here, the run-time composition is a dynamic composition.
• Detect conflicting compositions at design, compile, and run-time.

To achieve these characteristics in architecture, Thales-Hengelo investigated Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) in this period. One of the most important characteristics of SOA is that it embraces the dynamic composition of services. Here, the definition of services is software that implements behavior of a business domain. The concept of SOA is coming from the web-services community, which also provides most technologies that fit in this architecture.

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