An Architecture for Agent-Based Distributed Component Repository

In this paper, an agent-based distributed component repository is proposed. First, the architecture of the ABDCR is presented. The bulletin board system used to exchange the information of components is introduced, which can implement an asynchronous uncoupling communication mechanism. This architecture and communication mechanism uniforms multiple distributed heterogeneous component repositories logically. On one side, it uses distributed storage for software entities to ensure the safety of components and the proprietary of enterprises, i.e. each enterprise stores their components on their own repository; on the other side, it provides a unified logical view and query interface for all software enterprises to search and buy the components they can reuse in every component repository via Internet. This component repository can achieve the goal .

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