The Semantic Web is a hot topic in information circles today, and its
adoption will largely depend on stakeholders understanding its potential
benefits and tools vendors providing an easy entry for developers to learn
and work with its related technologies.
The Semantic Web Vision
Imagine this scenario. You're a software consultant, and today you're taking
a working lunch with one of your biggest clients. Her company has an
emergency project at one of its remote offices, and they need your consulting
services there for the next two weeks. You need to get there as soon as
possible to begin work, so you take out your hand-held computer, activate its
Semantic Web agent, and instruct it to book a nonstop flight that leaves
before 10 a.m. the next day. You want an aisle seat ... (more)
When you set out to develop a new Web service, do you start banging out angle
brackets right off the bat, or do you sketch out the logic of your service
first? For most engineers, the graphical approach to implementing business
logic is much more accessible. Only after a picture is created does the
complexity of translating it into code come into play.
Though Web services are intended to ... (more)