Declarative Service Domain Federation

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program stored therein, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computing device, causes the computing device to:

• receive, in a planning engine of a federation server, a federation rule, a quality-of-service policy, and a service group definition;
• identify, by the planning engine, a set of services based on the service group definition;
• generate, by the planning engine, a service visibility configuration and one or more service proxies based on the federation rule and the quality-of-service policy;
• deploy, by the federation server, the visibility configuration to one or more service domains comprising the individual services;
• and
• deploy, by the federation server, the one or more service proxies to connectivity middleware of the one or more service domains.

An apparatus, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory comprises instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
• receive, in a planning engine of a federation server, a federation rule, a quality-of-service policy, and a service group definition;
• identify, by the planning engine, a set of services based on the service group definition;
• generate, by the planning engine, a service visibility configuration and one or more service proxies based on the federation rule and the quality-of-service policy;
• deploy, by the federation server, the visibility configuration to one or more service domains comprising the individual services;
• and
• deploy, by the federation server, the one or more service proxies to connectivity middleware of the one or more service domains.