SOA pilot 2011 - service infrastructure

The SOA1 pilot was demonstrated for the Norwegian Defense at FFI in June 2011. Our goal was to give a practical demonstration of some of the benefits of using a service-oriented architecture. In the pilot, we included a number of existing military operational systems and service-enabled these by using so-called wrappers. All these systems were then connected in a common information infrastructure, offering their information through services. In this report, we present the pilot and how it was carried out from a technical (SOA-oriented) point of view. We describe how the functionality of the systems were service-enabled, how the SOA infrastructure was realized, and our recommendations and lessons learned from the pilot.