Semantic Web Services: The Future of Integration!

The hype around current Web Service technology and standards proposals is mind-boggling. Promises are made about the ease, speed, reliability and persuasiveness of Web Service technology all centered on the three basic standard proposals SOAP [12], WSDL [15] and UDDI [13]. Web Service technology is praised as the integration technology of tomorrow. Addressing the integration space, more proposals are stacked onto the three basic ones covering composition like BPEL4WS [1], ebXML [7], BPML [2], transaction support like WS-C [14] and WS-T [16], security, and many, many more creating the unavoidable future Web Service technology jungle [4].