Interoperability between enterprise applications requires an understanding of the obstacles to interoperability in order to provide methods for overcoming these obstacles. We address the problem from different angles: first, we investigate the benefit of multi-lingual ontologies to overcome language problems between users of an enterprise application. Second, we propose a method to integrate legacy components into new enterprise applications. Third, we research the impact service-oriented computing to enterprise application integration. Finally, we present our results with agent-oriented platforms for integrating autonomous applications.
Manfred A. Jeusfeld, Willem-Jan van den Heuvel, Je