The Web Service Modeling Toolkit - An Integrated Development Environment for Semantic Web Services

Abstract

The time of engineers is a precious commodity. This is especially true for engineers of semantic descriptions, who need to be highly skilled in conceptual modeling, a skill which will be in high demand as Semantic Web technologies are adopted by industry. Within the software engineering community Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) like the Eclipse Java Development Toolkit and NetBeans have proved to increase the productivity of engineers by bringing together tools to help engineers with their everyday tasks. This paper motivates the need for such an IDE for the Semantic Web and in particular describes the Web Service Modeling Toolkit (WSMT), an Integrated Development Environment for Semantic Web Services through the WSMO paradigm.

Harvesting Multiple Resources for Software as a Service Offers: A Big Data Study

“…The ontology includes most of the business function concepts and classifications outlined in [13]. In order to locate the right service with the right provider, the ontology is designed to map between the cloud service concepts and business concepts.…”

The Web Service Modeling Toolkit

“…Crucially the WSML Visualizer also has fully embedded editing support allowing the user to directly manipulate the semantic description vis the graph representation. The WSML Form Based Editor [7] provides a more functional view of the semantic description providing custom forms to the user which can filled in to create and maintain semantic descriptions. Finally the WSML Text Editor [7] is available to the user who is more experienced with the Human-readable syntax of WSML, it provides functionality like syntax highlighting, syntax and content assistance, code folding, and bracket highlighting.…”

“…The WSML Form Based Editor [7] provides a more functional view of the semantic description providing custom forms to the user which can filled in to create and maintain semantic descriptions. Finally the WSML Text Editor [7] is available to the user who is more experienced with the Human-readable syntax of WSML, it provides functionality like syntax highlighting, syntax and content assistance, code folding, and bracket highlighting. At this stage the user is also introduced to the validation support available in the WSMT, which is used to give immediate feedback to the developer whenever they make mistakes.…”

“…Now that the user is familiar with the different types of editing support available for WSML descriptions, and has an understanding of how to create and maintain them, they are introduced to the WSML Reasoner View [7] within which queries can be executed over the currently visible WSMO Ontology. The reasoner view gives the developer the opportunity to execute WSML queries over WSML-Flight and WSML-Rule ontologies using the IRIS, MINS or KAON2 reasoners and over WSML-DL ontologies.…”

“…The Web Service Modeling Toolkit (WSMT) [6,7] is an integrated development environment for Semantic Web Services that enables developers to develop Ontologies, Web Services, Goals and Mediators through the Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO) [3] formalism. The WSMT is implemented as a collection of plug-ins for the Eclipse 4 framework such that it can be integrated with other toolkits like the Java Development Toolkit JDT or the Web Tools Platform (WTP) 5 so that a developer can develop his java code, Web services and Semantic Web Services side by side in the one application.…”