Framework for Service-Oriented Architecture Metadata Management

Enterprise Architects and developers constantly have to deal with changing and evolving business requirements. Organizations have to be more dynamic in their collaboration and competition efforts to remain viable. To combat these increasing pressures on the IT resources enterprises are moving towards the paradigm of service orientation. This allows for businesses to leverage their existing investment in IT to accommodate new requirements. But this service orientation comes at the cost of increased complexity of the enterprise systems architecture. This paper explores the possibility of using semantic web technologies of XML, RDF and DAML + OIL and proposes a framework to curtail the increasing complexity of Service–Oriented Architectures. Key-Words: Service-Oriented Architecture, Metadata management, RDF, DAML + OIL