Extending ESB for semantic web services understanding

Abstract

The potential growth of applications distributed over a network and the large number of users has created the need for an infrastructure which can support increasing interaction not only among such users and applications but also an aplication to aplication interaction. This problem known as application integration has been addressed throughout time using different approaches such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Web Services. The Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) draws the best traits from these and other technology trends. In this work, we propose the use of an ESB combined with Semantic Web technology with the aim of building an “intelligent” middleware which facilitates the Semantic Web Services life cycle and the deployment of new computation resources over the architecture.