Towards Semantic Middleware for Web Application Development
Towards Semantic Middleware for Web Application Development
> In this paper we try to remedy the problems by applying semantic technology, i.e. ontologies and inference engines, in the middleware itself. After providing a short introduction to Web-based middleware and detailing some of its problems in sections 2 and 3, we propose an ontology as harmonizing conceptual model covering aspects from the heterogeneous areas of component and service descriptions (section 4). The ontology is leveraged to support developers and administrators in their complex tasks during development-, deployment-, and runtime in our prototypical Application Server (section 5). We discuss related work in section 5 and conclude in section 6. Finally, we provide a useful compilation of references and links.
> In this paper we try to remedy the problems by applying semantic technology, i.e. ontologies and inference engines, in the middleware itself. After providing a short introduction to Web-based middleware and detailing some of its problems in sections 2 and 3, we propose an ontology as harmonizing conceptual model covering aspects from the heterogeneous areas of component and service descriptions (section 4). The ontology is leveraged to support developers and administrators in their complex tasks during development-, deployment-, and runtime in our prototypical Application Server (section 5). We discuss related work in section 5 and conclude in section 6. Finally, we provide a useful compilation of references and links.