Tottori University, Tottori, 680-8550, Japan

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Abstract—Refactoring monolithic architecture into microservice architecture is a difficult task. In many cases, a monolithic service is divided into N-tiers based on the N-tier architecture. In order to divide a monolithic service into microservices, it is necessary to redefine a model as a new microservice by extracting models across layers and integrating them. However, since different layers and architectures are used for each layer, such as a database, an application framework, server software, etc., programs and models extracted from each tier are often redesigned and re-implemented in many cases. In this paper, we focus to the mobile agent technology that builds a system only by the simple two methods of agent's migration between computers and messaging between agents; and we propose the system architecture to facilitate the migration of a monolithic service to microservices.

Index Terms—Distributed system, microservice, mobile agent, monolithic service, web service.

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Cite: Masayuki Higashino, Toshiya Kawato, Takao Kawamura, "A Design with Mobile Agent Architecture for Refactoring A Monolithic Service into Microservices," Journal of Computers vol. 13, no. 10, pp. 1192-1201, 2018.