Extensible java EE-based agent framework in clustered environments

Abstract

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014. Modern enterprise-scale applications are executed on computer clusters in order to achieve horizontal scaling, as well as uninterrupted delivery of services. However, the industry-based standards and technical solutions have rarely been utilized by agent developers. This paper presents recent research effort aimed at improving our existing Java EE-based agent framework in order to fully exploit the benefits of clustered computing. Among other benefits, the new architecture provides automatic agent load-balancing and fault-tolerance, without “reinventing the wheel.”.