JADE-JBossESB gateway: Integration of multi-agent system with enterprise service bus

The paper presents a framework for integration of JADE-based multi-agent platform with the JBossESB Enterprise Service Bus. The framework provides means for wrapping the JADE agent system in the JBossESB service and transforming the agent messages to ESB messages and vice versa. This enables an agent wrapped in the ESB service to send a message to another ESB service or to another agent residing within a different service. Such framework is used in the ARUM project focused on adaptive production planning and scheduling in complex small-lot manufacturing industries, such as aircraft manufacturing. The scheduler service internally designed as a multi-agent system utilizes the presented gateway to communicate with other services over the ESB, namely with the ontology service providing it with the data from legacy systems.