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The WSDL2Agent tool is used to help the integration of existing web services into agent based systems. The input to the WSDL2Agent tool is the WSDL file of a web service and the tool provides two types of output. The WSDL2Jade part of the tool generates code for a proxy agent that makes the web service available in multi-agent environment. The WSDL2Protégé part of the tool generates project file for the Protégé ontology engineering tool in which the ontology of the web service can be semantically enriched, visualized, or exported to various formats. In this paper we present the technical details of the code generators and the application scenario of the tool.
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Varga, L.Z., Hajnal, Á., Werner, Z. (2005). The WSDL2Agent Tool. In: Unland, R., Calisti, M., Klusch, M. (eds) Software Agent-Based Applications, Platforms and Development Kits. Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7643-7348-2_9
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