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Mobile agents are programs that can be dispatched from one computer and delivered to a remote computer for execution. Arriving at the remote computer, they present their credentials and obtain access to local services and data. They also provide a single uniform paradigm for distributed object computing, encompassing synchrony and asynchrony, message-passing and object-passing, and stationary objects and mobile objects. In this paper, we describe our Java-based mobile agents called Aglets and present its programming interface, called Java Aglet API.
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Lange, D.B., Oshima, M., Karjoth, G., Kosaka, K. (1997). Aglets: Programming mobile agents in Java. In: Masuda, T., Masunaga, Y., Tsukamoto, M. (eds) Worldwide Computing and Its Applications. WWCA 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1274. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63343-X_52
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