A Unified Framework for Application Integration: An Ontology-Driven Service-Oriented Approach
Résumé
Today, enterprise integration (EI) is still facing many problems and the crucial one is the semantic heterogeneity. This problem is not correctly addressed by today's EI solutions that focus mainly on the technical and syntactical integration. Addressing the semantic aspect will promote EI by providing it more consistency and robustness. Some efforts are suggested to solve the semantic problem at different level, but they are still not mature. This article will propose an approach that combines both ontologies and web services in order to address this hard integration problem.