The idea behind the framework is that
where appropriate educational services should be
able to make use of common services. This means that there is a need to determine
which components are common services that will be used across many services and
applications. Common services will include, for instance, authentication and
authorisation and content management.
By separating out the different services
it also becomes possible to develop systems
incrementally. So long as the common services are in place other services can be
added as needed.
