A.I. Wang (Norway)
: Mobile Agents, Distributed objects, JavaSpaces, Aglets.
This paper investigates how a framework for sharing objects in a distributed setting can provide the same support for mobile agents as a framework made specific for this purpose. The paper de scribes experiences from migrating a multi-agent system using the JavaSpaces framework from Sun and that was originally imple mented using the Aglets agent framework from IBM. Our mobile agent system is named CAGIS DIAS and consists of four main parts: agents, agent meeting places, workspaces and repositories. In this paper, we describe how we had to modify the agents and the agent meeting places to use JavaSpaces as the underlying tech nology for mobility and agent coordination. Our experiences indi cates that the JavaSpaces technology is useful for building mobile agent systems. In addition, the experiences shows some advan tages and short comings of using this approach.
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