Web Services Semantic Web Services Web Service Modelling Ontology Framework
Issue Date:
2006
Publisher:
Institute of Information Theories and Applications FOI ITHEA
Abstract:
The current INFRAWEBS European research project aims at developing ICT framework enabling
software and service providers to generate and establish open and extensible development platforms for Web
Service applications. One of the concrete project objectives is developing a full-life-cycle software toolset for
creating and maintaining Semantic Web Services (SWSs) supporting specific applications based on Web Service
Modelling Ontology (WSMO) framework. According to WSMO, functional and behavioural descriptions of a SWS
may be represented by means of complex logical expressions (axioms). The paper describes a specialized userfriendly
tool for constructing and editing such axioms – INFRAWEBS Axiom Editor. After discussing the main
design principles of the Editor, its functional architecture is briefly presented. The tool is implemented in Eclipse
Graphical Environment Framework and Eclipse Rich Client Platform.