Enhancing application servers with semantics
Marta Sabou, Daniel Oberle, Deborah Richards · Open Research Online (The Open University) · 2004
We report on using semantic technology to enhance application servers. In particular, the conclusion of our analysis is that OWL-S, an emerging effort for semantic webservice descriptions, is a good starting point for supporting many frequent tasks within a concrete application server which facilitates reusing and combining Semantic Web software modules (e.g. ontology stores, reasoners, etc.). The focus of this paper is on detailing the design of the supporting ontology: (1) identifying the aspects of application servers that benefit from semantic technology and (2) analyzing and extending OWL-S for this purpose. We also report on the integration of this ontology within the server.