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AGENT BASED WEB SERVICE COMMUNICATING DIFFERENT IS’S AND
PLATFORMS
Shaymaa mohammed jawad kadhim
Research Student, BVUCOE, Pune.
Ministry of transport, Iraq
Dr. Shashank Joshi
Professor, BVDUCOE, Pune
ABSTRACT
Nowadays, in a globalized and dynamic world - many companies use different platforms, OS,
legacy software and hardware. All these different technologies may need to integrate and
communicate with each other without effecting their own performance and with minimal costs.
In this paper we will introduce two different IS’s to communicate with each other by using agent
based Web services.
Keywords: IS, Legacy Software, Agent Based Web Service, Web Service, Performance.
1. INTRODUCTION
Many companies form such different sectors like financial, educational, scientific are in need
of IS and service-based web applications. Due to globalization many of these companies are merging
rapidly. These mergers often requires the integration of old legacy systems into new and efficient IS.
Where the Legacy system is considered no longer economical, technology, computer- system,
or application- .
The legacy system may or may not remain in use. But even if it is no longer used, it may
continue to impact the organization due to its historical role. Historic data may not have been
converted into the new system format and may exist within the new system with the use of a
customized schema crosswalk, or may exist only in a data warehouse. In either case, the effect
on business intelligence and operational reporting can be significant. For a variety of reasons, a
legacy system may continue to be used, sometimes well past its vendor-supported lifetime, resulting
in support and maintenance challenges. It may be that the system still provides for the users' needs,
even though newer technology or more efficient methods of performing a task are now available.
However, the decision to keep an old system may be influenced by economic reasons such as return
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on investment challenges or vendor lock-in, the inherent challenges of change management, or a
variety of other reasons other than functionality.
A legacy system may include procedures or terminology which are no longer relevant in the
current context, and may hinder or confuse understanding of the methods or technologies used [2].
While Web information system, is an information system that uses internet web technology to
deliver information and services to users or other information system / application.
It is a software system whose main purpose is to publish and maintain data by using hypertext-based
principles.
A web information system consists of one or more web applications, together with
information components and other non-web components. A web browser is used as front-end
whereas a database servers as back-end
New Information systems must provide better security than legacy systems but at the same
time it should not decrease the performance [3].
There are many approaches to make different legacy systems to communicate with each others.
The main approaches which are:
1) Introducing a wrapper: can “inject” code into legacy a IS allows it to communicate with the
requester.
2) Using a transducer, which accepts messages from the requester, translates them into the program's
native language and protocol, and passes them on to the legacy IS. [4]
In this paper we will focus on agent based web services as a solution for this issue_. The
solution is platform independent. In a first step it will discover and determine the different
architectures. In a second step it will make these two platforms communicate with each others.
2. PREVIOUS WORKS
1. The paper [5] describes how web- based services becomes more agent-like and how the result
of this will yield.
2. The paper [6] presents an integration of agent -mobile and the web services technology.
3. The paper [7] proposes an agent-based web services architecture and apply to augment
manufacturability to increase the efficiency of the distributed collaboration.
4. The paper [8] presents some agent-based and context-oriented approach for web services
composition.
5. The paper [9] presents a gateway architecture for connecting software agents and Web
services in a transparent manner with fully automatic operation.
6. The paper [10] describes a solution for pro-active Web services composition and selection.
3. PROPOSED ARCHITECTURE
In this paper we used an agent based web services for making two independent platforms to
communicate with each other in two steps:
- In a first step: it will discover and determine the different architectures.
- In a second step the two platforms communicate with each others.
3.1 DISCOVERIG THE TYPE OF OPERATING SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE.
There are many ways and methods that can be used to discover the different in architecture of
operating systems, and these methods depend on the type of Operating system that may used.
We are facing a lot of different operating systems used, such as Unix (it is a powerful, multi-
user environment that has been implemented on a variety of platforms. Once the domain of servers
and advanced users, it has become accessible to novices as well through the popularity of Linux and

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Mac OS X. With the notable exception of Microsoft Windows, all current major operating systems
have some kind of Unix at their cores) [11].
A Linux-based system is a modular Unix-like operating system. It derives much of its basic
design from principles established in Unix during the 1970s and 1980s. Such a system uses a
monolithic, the Linux kernel, which handles process control, networking, and peripheral and file
system access. Device drivers are either integrated directly with the kernel or added as modules
loaded while the system is running [12].
Microsoft Windows is a series of graphical interface operating system developed, marketed
and sold by Microsoft. Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows
on November 20, 1985 as a graphical operating system shell for MS-DOS in response to the
growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUI). Microsoft Windows came to dominate the
world's personal computer market with over 90% market share, overtaking Mac OS, which had been
introduced in 1984, As of April 2013, the most recent versions of Windows for personal
computers, mobile devices, server computers and devices are respectively Windows 8, Windows
Phone 8, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Embedded 8 [13].
In this paper we will focus on windows7 version with two different architectures, the 32bit
architecture and 64bit architecture, There are many methods which can be used to discover and
determine the specific type of operating system architecture, such as:
1. Read information from the Windows Registry, this is very easy; you only have to use the Registry
class in .NET.
2. Use environment variables. However, it does not supply you with additional details you might
want. For example: There is no way to detect Windows® 7 editions.
3. Use the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) query, WMI gives you everything you
possibly might need in one single shot, and just require a few lines of code. WMI is not supported in
older versions of the Windows® NT Kernel (but this is becoming less of a problem nowadays).
4. There is a fourth method, which is to use the OS Version property in .NET found under the
Environment class.
5. Another solution that is also available, is (Environment.Is64BitOperatingSystem). However, this
works only in .NET Framework 4.0 and apps made with .NET Framework 4.
In this paper we are going to apply the forth method, which is, the
PROCESSOR_ARHITECTURE. It is not a hardware processor; it is referring to the processor that
the OS software was made for.
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE is the set of combinations Portable Executable Kinds and Image
File Machine that describes valid PE file types for managed code.
The algorithm of using this function is:
String arch = Environment.GetEnvironmentvariable
(“processor_Architecture”);
If (Arch.IndexOf (“64”) >0))
Then // architecture of operating system is 64Bit;
Else // architecture of operating system is 32Bit;

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The block diagram of this algorithm is shown in figure (1) below:
Fig (1): block diagram of the algorithm
Figure(2) below shows the output or the result of a program which will try to implemented it
in windows 7 but 32bit architecture , the return value of Arch.IndexOf(“64”) will be (-1) , whereas in
64bit architecture will be more than (0).
Fig (2)
3.2 TWO INDEPENDENT SYSTEMS COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER BY USING AGENT BASED WEB
SERVICE
There are several ways to make two independent operating systems to communicate with
each other .The choice of which of these methods is more effective and practical, mainly depends on
the type and architecture of the operating systems themselves. As pointed out before there are many
operating systems (as we mentioned in previous paragraph) , but in this paper we chose Windows7
but with different architectures 32bit and 64bit , and the old one without any providing security
while the new one will provide security by using one of Cryptography algorithm, these methods are :
1) Introducing the Transducer, accepts messages from the requester, translates them into the
program's native language and protocol, and passes them on to the legacy IS.
2) The second one, introducing the wrapper, can “inject” code into a legacy IS to allow it to
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3) The third solution that is, Rewriting [1],
4) forth one is by using agent based web service ,which will used in this paper , This web
service consists from methods which are used to check the current operating system and
according to this detecting , it will call particular a web service.
In this paper agent based web services are used to make two independent operating systems
windows7 32bit and windows7 64bit communicate with each other by using three models . These
models are:
First model: Web service (legacy Information System)
This web service is mainly used to fetch data from the server using 32 bit windows
environment. This web service will also check current system hardware details and accordingly will
call respective web service.
This Web service will contain the methods which can be run only on legacy systems. The
coding will be according to the legacy system platform and technology. E.g. .32 bit operating system
platform.
This Web service will pass the variables/messages without any encryption or decryption and
thus providing less security.
Second model: Web Service (New Information System)
This is new web service which is improved by adding features like Encryption, giving Instant
messages of user activities, sending mails etc.
In this web service all the methods will be implemented using new technology in new legacy system.
This web service will pass the variables/messages in an encrypted format and it will return decrypted
messages.
Third model: This web service will contain a method which is used to check the current hardware
platform, Depending on the detected platform, it will call a particular web service. It is responsible
for selecting the proper web service from the community of web services.
A community is a “container” that clusters Web services based on a specific area of interest. All Web
services that belong to a given community share the same area of interest.
As shown in figure(3) below , the general architecture of the work .
Fig (3): the general work architecture

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4. CONCLUSION
In this paper we have created and applied a new agent based web service, it is used to provide
communication between two web services, one of them is in old operating system without security,
whereas the other one is in a new operating system containing security features.
The agent based web service contains methods which can be used to check current platform.
Depending on the detected platform, it will call particular web service.
5. FUTURE WORK
Customer satisfaction is the main aim of every system. We should provide a better and faster
system to the customer.
In our system we provide better communicate between old and new operating systems and
platforms without reducing the performance, all aims should be reached at minimal expenses.
Our future work will focus on necessary hardware improvements in new IS to gain same
performance which we get in old legacy system and provide better security also.
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