Abstract
JMessengers is a Java-based mobile agent system particularly designed for distributed computing in heterogeneous computer networks. This paper explains JMessengers programming environment, evaluates JMessengers performance, and compares it to the mobile agent systems MESSENGERS-C and Grasshoppers. The evaluation showed that JMessengers is an optimal compromise between the two systems. It offers the same flexibility as Grasshoppers and reaches almost the execution speed of MESSENGERS-C.
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We would like to thank Lubomir Bic, Michael Dillencourt, and Eugene Gendelman of the MESSENGERS research group at University of California, Irvine, for their assistance in developing the JMessengers system.
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Gmelin, M., Kreuzinger, J., Pfeffer, M., Ungerer, T. (2001). Agent-Based Distributed Computing with JMessengers. In: Böhme, T., Unger, H. (eds) Innovative Internet Computing Systems. IICS 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2060. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48206-7_12
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