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