The, so-called, Web service-enabled SOA
infrastructure allows the deployment of Web service software instances of each
business applications and services, respectively, so as to provide a first integration
layer, regarding the interfacing (WSDL) and communication (SOAP) of initially
incompatible business applications.
Although, this first layer of abstraction, involving WSDL interfaces, provides a
universal standards-based, highly flexible and adaptable implementation of business
applications integration (Haller et al., 2005), the problem of documenting and
understanding the semantics of these interfaces not only still exists, but it becomes
a crucial issue to deal with. The significance of interpreting semantics in a machine
understandable way arises from the continuously increasing average amount of
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Web services that are stored in typical UDDI registries used in the Web serviceenabled
SOA approach, which makes it difficult for the developer and/or software
engineer to manually integrate and put together the suitable Web services.
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