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2009
Bachelor Thesis
Titel
Semantic extensibility of SOA governance tools
Abstract
Due to the paradigm shift in enterprises that seek to better align their business and IT domains with the help of SOA, the policies, people, and processes used in ensuring that desired behaviours are adhered to in a SOA implementation are gaining immensely in importance. A number of SOA Governance solutions exist on the market today but none of them significantly harness the power of increasingly significant semantic technology. In the long run, the available tools on the market used in supporting SOA Governance will undoubtedly have to support semantic technologies to remain relevant and competitive as compatibility with the semantic web is fast becoming a basic prerequisite of web based solutions. This thesis starts by portraying the use of Tools for SOA Governance by contrasting leadi ng SOA Governance vendor solutions against the backdrop of semantic extensibility. It then goes on to evaluate the possibilities of syntactic versioning in SOA Governance tools and explore the possibilities of incorporating semantic technology as a means of making SOA Governance in general - and versioning in particular - more efficient. The purpose of this evaluation was to determine if semantic technology can be realistically incorporated as a means of optimizing SOA Governance. The evaluation was carried out by practically re-enacting a SOA Governance scenario. It began by running through the steps of the classical approach of enforcing a versioning policy then changing the environment to include semantic components which utilize ontology repositories that help map semantically similar ontologies to each other. The two approaches were then juxtaposed and evaluated. The thesis shows that semantic matchmaking is a technique which under optimal conditions- brings many advantages with it and can improve productivity. Despite few shortcomings, the evaluation shows that overall: the advantages of using semantic technology for versioning outweigh the status quo.
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Berlin, Hochschule für Technik, Bachelor Thesis, 2009
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Berlin
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English
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