Abstract
Recently, highly extensible IT systems are required. It is said that an agent programming model provides high efficiency on application development, however, modification of both data structure and message handler program of agents are needed to add a new service. The issue is the same as the issue that other programming models have. IBM Agent Framework which we developed provides a highly extensible capability. By using the framework, a new service can be added without modifying existing data structure and programming code. In this paper, we introduce the capability and explain how the framework provides the capability. We also discuss why the framework can provide the capability.
