Integration of Semantic Web Services Principles in SOA to Solve EAI and ERP Scenarios; Towards Semantic Service Oriented Architecture

Traditional EA concepts in the Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) domain focus on ex-post integration of application interfaces by pipelining different middleware technologies like message queuing or remote method invocations [1, 2]. Web Service enabled Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) used in the EAI context were a step towards providing an abstraction layer for the involved interfaces by using the Web Service Description Language (WSDL). The idea of SOA enlarges by applying Semantic Web Services (SWS) technology to it. OWL-S and WSMO are two examples for concrete implementation approaches in this area [3, 4], and we will demonstrate semantic WSMO framework, and how it can solve the problems of traditional SOA.