Development of an IGT infrastructure for internet based integration

Abstract

Information Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructures supporting complex operations require collaborative effort to integrate a range of standalone software products into a coordinated system. However, the standalone products are normally developed with specific objectives and do not interoperate with each other. In a virtual enterprise environment, this imposes major challenges to ICT managers to manage a large variety of software products whereby each product only satisfies the unique requirements of a small portion of the user community. This paper discusses the development of the ICT infrastructure for a tooling virtual enterprise) using the open protocol standards as well as a new ICT infrastructure development tool known as Dynamic Network System (DNS). DNS models the operating characteristics of the ICT environment and generates the integrated internet web portal quickly from the system designer's view. It is built on standard JSP server capabilities using open source system that has the normal server security facilities.