query handler for owl-s descriptions

["Michael C.Jaeger" <mc...@ivs.tu-berlin.de>]

Hello,

we have done some work with managing web services descriptions using 
OWL-Services (owls). owls is a proposal for an upper ontology to 
describe the web service and provide classifications using an OWL 
ontology or other calssification mechanisms. for more info see

	http://www.daml.org/services/owl-s/

for our application we need to query the owls description of a web 
service. we found it useful to query these files just like the wsdl 
file. So we have added a query handler to the axis implementation to 
query the file with '?owls'. owls files can be maintained (uploaded, 
managed etc.) with a tiny JSP implementation.

so if anyone like that way of querying owls descriptions (or wants to 
realise a similar approach for querying for files), he might take this 
implementation freely for re-using it:

	http://ivs.tu-berlin.de/Projekte/owlsplugin/

regarding the software we have provided some ant targets for building 
and deploying it - should be OK to adopt. Have fun!

best regards,

Michael CJ.


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