An Agent Based Wrapper Mechanism Used in System Integration

This paper provides a kind of agent wrapper mechanism used in legacy system integration. First, it presents the agent-based system integration hierarchy model, which, according to the abstract level from low to high, is divided into inheritance function unit layer, agent capability component layer, agent layer and multi-agent system (MAS) layer. Then, it provides the wrapper agent model which includes agent capability component, agent definition file and agent template code. The capability component wraps the inheritance function unit. The loosely coupled wrapper mechanism decouples the agent capability representation and implementation. It is flexible for users to wrap the inheritance function units to be an agent and develop a new agent.