Introducing Web Services in HLA-based simulation application

High Level Architecture (HLA) conduces to the integration of different models to form a complicated distributed simulation system. However, there exist some limitations in HLA-based simulation application in some aspects. In the paper, aiming at resolving these problems, we focus on the study of introducing Web services in HLA-based simulation application and propose Web Services-Based HLA Simulation Framework (WSHLA). Firstly, the structure of and the Web services in WSHLA are presented. Then, the implementation of every components and the execution flow of the framework are discussed respectively. Experimental results validate the framework and demonstrate that using the framework to introduce web services in HLA-based simulation application can effectively make up for its limitations and ensure its better running at expense of some time.