  In Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) there are two main models of interaction: among
agents, and between agents and the environment. Although there are studies
considering these models, there is no practical tool to afford the interaction
with external entities with both models. This paper presents a proposal for
such a tool based on the Apache Camel framework by designing two new
components, namely camel-jason and camel-artifact. By means of these
components, an external entity is modelled according to its nature, i.e.,
whether it is autonomous or non-autonomous, interacting with the MAS
respectively as an agent or an artifact. It models coherently external entities
whereas Camel provides interoperability with several communication protocols.
