An Adaptive Agent-Based Network for Distributed Component Repositories

The application of component repository has become more and more popular in the practice of component-based software development. Most of the repositories are physically isolated and vary in the classification and specification mechanisms, forming a distributed and heterogeneous network, which hinders the share and reusability of component resource. Therefore, it is important to integrate the distributed component repositories into a logically unified architecture. This paper adopts the intelligent agent-based technique to achieve the adaptive and extensible integration. The network architecture and the structural design of the agents are proposed. Some key issues in the design are discussed further