Authors: M. Ali, Y. Mohamed
High Level Architecture (HLA) is a distributed simulation framework that offers integration, reusability, and flexibility. Nonetheless, it has been criticized for its complexity and overwhelming services. Consequently, it has been rarely used on a day-to-day basis in industrial world. A very steep learning curve is one of the main challenge that faces a new user of HLA distributed simulation. The user has to be familiar with different HLA services (e.g. objects and time management) beside a programming language to develop a basic simulation. In order to overcome this challenge, we developed a tool with friendly graphical user interface that encapsulates all HLA services. This tool allows a new user to explore services as described in the standards without the need for programming language. In addition, the interface can be used by an experienced simulator to debug existing federation quickly and efficiently.