Recommendations for increased efficiency of Web services in the tactical domain

The C3 Board has chosen Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) realized using Web services to achieve interoperable software in NATO. The NATO research group IST-118 “SOA recommendations for disadvantaged grids in the tactical domain” aims to provide guidance on how to make SOA applicable at the tactical level. The focus of the group is to investigate how Core Enterprise Services can be applied in the tactical domain, as these form a basis one can use to build other services on. In this paper, we investigate how tuning application server parameters affects the performance of Web services in different emulated tactical networks.