doi: 10.4304/jsw.9.7.1718-1736
Towards A Framework for Service-Oriented Architecture Metadata Management
- 1 SecureKey Technologies Inc. Toronto, Ontario M2P 2E9, Canada
- 2 Information and Computer Science Department King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia
Abstract
Service-Oriented Architecture has gained considerable attention in construction of enterprise level business solutions. Although this architectural approach provides many benefits, it comes at the cost of increased complexity. This research focuses on the development of a metadata framework using semantic web technologies of XML, Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Web Ontology Language (OWL). The resultant framework is in the form of an Enterprise Services Ontology and Enterprise Services Profile. These ontologies provide the foundation that has been employed to develop a proof-of-concept Services Repository to prove that a semantic service repository can be a viable means of addressing complexity and management problems faced by enterprise scale Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementations.
Keywords
- Service-Oriented Architecture
- Metadata
How to Cite
Malik M. Umar and Mohammad Alshayeb, "Towards A Framework for Service-Oriented Architecture Metadata Management," Journal of Software, vol. 9, no. 7, pp. 1718-1736, 2014. https://doi.org/ 10.4304/jsw.9.7.1718-1736
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Copyright © 2014 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).