Web Service-based Multi Agent System Gateway

Web Service has revolutionized the communication of information between organizations by using widely accepted SOAP protocols and transportations. However, realizing the Web Service full potential will require more than rapid access to information and services, which is called Web Service Automation. In effect agent-based technologies provide the mechanism for components to seek work, enter into cooperative agreements and thus otherwise address the requirements of dynamic, heterogeneous environments. Advanced Web Service will not be processed by human attended actions, but by software agents, which should be able to discover, invoke, compose, and monitor Web Service resources offering particular services and having particular properties.Web Service as Agent behavior broke down burden between Web Service world and Muiti Agents world theoretically, then the sequence of Agent behavior means composite Web Services, a selection method, meet cooperative problem solving approach.Since Web Service and Agents are completely standalone technologies, which have there own specifications and communication protocols, redesigning specifications to integrate those two technologies is an impossible mission. Thus using gateway to translate communication message between Web Service platform and Multi Agent platform is a well done approach. This article build a experimental gateway system that allow normal SOAP-based web service request to be served by agent through several gateway components, and send back response to web service client.