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In this paper we describe a way to save and restore the state of a running Java program. We achieve this on the language level, without modifying the Java virtual machine, by instrumenting the programmer’s original code with a preprocessor. The automatically inserted code saves the runtime information when the program requests state saving and reestablishes the program’s runtime state on restart. The current preprocessor prototype is used in a mobile agent scenario to offer transparent agent migration for Java based mobile agents, but could generally be used to save and reestablish the execution state of any Java program.
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Fünfrocken, S. (1998). Transparent migration of Java-based mobile agents. In: Rothermel, K., Hohl, F. (eds) Mobile Agents. MA 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1477. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0057646
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