Execution of semantic services in enterprise application integration
Péter Martinek, Balazs Tothfalussy, Béla Szikora · 2008
Abstract:- In this paper, we present an approach for the execution of semantically enriched services in Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). After the brief overview of current researches and literature the basic definitions and concepts are revealed. Our integration platform is based on a typical Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solution, which consists of a service registry, a process designer and a run-time engine. Furthermore there are some additional components for realizing semantic enrichment e.g. the semantic profiler and the Ontology. The focus of the paper is the preparation for the process run-time. We propose a mediator based approach where two data transformations are assigned to each service during a so called annotation process. The standard services of ERP, CRM, SCM etc. systems are encapsulated into these mediator services which makes possible to apply them in our semantic integration framework. Furthermore our method enables that our semantically composed processes and their services remain executable on current process run-time standards. Key-Words:- Enterprise application interoperability, Semantic services ’ run-time, Collaborative business processes 1