Mobile Agents

Mobile agents have been around for many years, but they haven't yet entered the mainstream. This article takes a look at aglets, a mobile-agent technology built on top of Java. (3,400 words)

Mobile Agents, Tryllian makes business integration easy through the use of Dynamic Smart Components

Kaariboga is a free implementation of mobile agents technology implemented in Java.

Mobile agents are agents that can physically travel across a network, and perform tasks on machines that provide agent hosting capability. This allows processes to migrate from computer to computer, for processes to split into multiple instances that execute on different machines, and to return to their point of origin. Unlike remote procedure calls, where a process invokes procedures of a remote ...