AN ONTOLOGY BASED MIDDLEWARE SERVICES AND PARSER

Middleware is a distributed software layer, or 'platform' which abstracts over the complexity and heterogeneity of the underlying distributed environment, so it acts as a middle tier between applications and operating system. middleware supports communications, information exchange, objects management, sending messages, in addition to providing many functions to build distributed systems. many classifications and definitions have been provided for middleware. there is a greet need to give a global look to middleware and their factors. an 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 a parser has been used to classify many middleware service files.