Just a reminder that I'm giving a free Webinar on:

Friday, March 16, 2007
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

You can register here.

When dealing with SOA, as you know by now, we are dealing with much complexity. The notion of ontologies and semantics helps the SOA architect prepare generalizations that make the problem domain more understandable. In contrast to abstraction, generalization ignores many of the details and ends up with general ideas. Therefore, when generalizing, we start with a collection of types and analyze commonalities to generalize them.

Clearly, semantic heterogeneity and divergence hinders the notion of generalization, and as commonalities of two entities are represented in semantically different ways, the differences are more difficult to see. Thus, ontological analysis clears the ground for generalization, making the properties of the entities much more clear. Indeed, ontological analysis for SOA encourages generalization.

In this session we take the mystery out of the use of Ontologies, providing the attendee with a step-by-step approach to the use of Ontologies and Supporting W3C standards.

Posted by Dave Linthicum on March 13, 2007 08:21 AM