COLLABORATIVE SYSTEM FOR CAPTURE AND REUSE OF SOFTWARE APPLICATION KNOWLEDGE AND A METHOD OF REALIZING SAME

A method and system for generating an information template from a domain ontology, where the information template is specific to a content management system (CMS). After a domain ontology specification is received, a platform independent model (PIM) is generated that includes elements that represent knowledge in the CMS. The PIM is converted to a platform specific model (PSM) that is based on the CMS. The information template specific to the CMS is generated based on the PSM. A result of generating the information template is a documentation of content for the CMS in a format specified by the information template. An existing CMS is reverse engineered to interoperable forms by retrieving content of the information template in the existing CMS, transforming the content to the PIM, and transforming the PIM to a domain ontology model.