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An Agent-based Approach for Component Management in Service-oriented Architectures

Recently, many service providers have introduced service-oriented architecture systems. Loosely coupled components which offer a service, can depend on other components to fulfill users’ service requests. This relationship, as well as the relationship between the service provider and the user, is defined in a signed contract. During the service life-cycle, some components may require maintenance. In such cases, it is the service provider’ s obligation to make sure that changing the components will not undermine any signed contracts. This paper proposes an agent-based approach to component management. We investigate the possibilities of using mobile agents in SOA systems and discuss the potential benefits of such an approach. A case study performed on a service where a selected component was upgraded using the Remote Maintenance Shell tool is presented.

Service-Oriented architectures; component management; software agents; contracts

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