The Web Service Modeling Toolkit - An Integrated Development Environment for Semantic Web Services

The time of engineers is a precious commodity. This is especially true for engineers of semantic descriptions, who need to be highly skilled in conceptual modeling, a skill which will be in high demand as Semantic Web technologies are adopted by industry. Within the software engineering community Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) like the Eclipse Java Development Toolkit and NetBeans have proved to increase the productivity of engineers by bringing together tools to help engineers with their everyday tasks. This paper motivates the need for such an IDE for the Semantic Web and in particular describes the Web Service Modeling Toolkit (WSMT), an Integrated Development Environment for Semantic Web Services through the WSMO paradigm.