Toward Semantic Representation of Middleware Services

TL;DR

This paper proposes an ontology for middleware services to provide a comprehensive framework for classifying, discovering, and describing middleware functionalities, enhancing user ability to find suitable services in distributed systems.

Contribution

It introduces a novel ontology for middleware services that enables global understanding and improved classification and discovery of middleware functionalities.

Findings

Ontology effectively classifies middleware services

Parser successfully categorizes service files

Enhances user ability to find suitable middleware services

Abstract

Middleware is middle tier software that supports communications between two or more different applications, and between applications and shared services. Managing the complexity and heterogeneity of distributed infrastructures is the important role of middleware so that it can provide the simple programing environment for the developer of distributed application Middleware supports communications, information exchange, objects management, sending messages, in addition to provides many functions to build distributed systems. Many classification and definition has been provided for middleware, there is a great need to give a global look to middleware and their factors. Ontology for Middleware services is proposed in this paper, whose intention is to make a global look to middleware and enrich middleware services description. Using this ontology, we can discover and classify incoming services to their appropriate types according to their specification and characteristics. The proposed ontology is helpful for users to find their suitable services according to their own preferences. Besides this is an example, a parser has been used to classify many middleware service files.