Engineers
integrating the enterprise application systems have to know the meaning of the
low-level data structures in order to implement a semantically correct integration.
No formal definition of the interface data exist (Bussler, 2003b), which implies that
the knowledge of every developer of applications involved in the integration project
is assumed to be consistent.
Therefore, the problem that still exists, which the traditional Web services technologies
are weak to solve, refers to the formalization and the documentation of
the semantics related to the interfaces and the data structures of the deployed Web
services. By applying Semantic Web technologies to SOAs and deploying Semantic
Web services so as to integrate various systems, the notion of Semantic Web services
enables SOA is emerging, paving the way to the semi-automated semantic-based
enterprise application integration.
Bouras, Gouvas, and Mentzas
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