Dave McComb
President
Semantic Arts, Inc.

Monday 9:00am - 12:15pm

Level: Data Management - Intermediate

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a hot topic now, and data management/modeling professionals are in a great position to assist their organizations with their SOA projects, if they seize the opportunity. SOA promises to reduce coupling between components in an enterprise. But left to their own devices, many SOA projects will go bad. Practitioners are finding that unless the semantic issues are addressed, the tight coupling persists, merely moved from the binding layer to the terminology layer.

In this tutorial we introduce the concept of an Enterprise Message Model as the mediation layer between applications and services. We will show how the Enterprise Message Model is derived, and how specific service invocations are defined from the EMM.

This tutorial will include:

• The basics of SOA and semantic SOA
• A methodology for creating and using an Enterprise Message Model
• A set of patterns for composition and deployment of applications in such an environment
• Guidelines for what to include in the shared ontology, and what should remain in the local ontologies of each application