Documenting Service-Oriented Architectures with Ontobrowse Semantic Wiki

PRIMIUM Subconference at the Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik 2008

Hans-Jörg Happel1 and Stefan Seedorf21 FZI Research Center for Information Technologies ; Karlsruhe ; 2 University of Mannheim ; Department of Information Systems III

Others  :  http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-328/paper13.pdf
PID  :  22346

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

Documenting and maintaining an enterprise-wide service-oriented architecture (SOA) causes a substantial management effort which should beaddressed by intelligent, scalable solutions. A particular challenge is that businessexperts, developers and software architects take different perspectives on a SOA,which leads towards a scattering of architectural information throughout variousformats and sources. Ontobrowse Semantic Wiki specifically addresses theseissues by providing an ontology-based integration and documentation platform forarchitectural information. In this paper, we first identify the main issues arisingfrom documentation and maintenance by introducing the case of an enterpriseSOA in an insurance company. Then we give a detailed description of theOntobrowse approach and its implementation. At last, we explain how ontologies,artifact mappings and architectural rules are created to support the Enterprise SOA