The Mobile Agents List: Mobidget

System Name: Mobidget

Current Version: 1.1

Organization: NEC Corporation

Entry status: authoritative

Supported platforms:
Windows
Solaris

Supported languages:
Mobidget

Implemented standards: none

Type of migration:
strong

How many threads or processes are possible per agent? unlimited number

Local communication mechanisms and format of data:
method invocation
sending object references or copies

Global communication mechanisms:
remote method invocation
sending object references or copies

How the communication partner can be addressed:
agent object reference

Resource access control mechanism:
configurable policies

Agent tracking:
The agent object reference is consistently maintained during migration.

Directory of services:
Each base (place) has an open registry.

Type of code migration:
on demand from sending host

Other special features:
An agent can be distributed over several nodes.
Each piece of an agent, residing on a node, can independently migrate.

Availability:
not available now. We are planning binary distribution.

License terms:
We are preparing it.

Article that describe the current system best:
Satoru Fujita, Suresh Jagannathan, et al., Mobidget: Mobile and Distributed Programming Language, the 57th National Convention of Information Processing Society of Japan, 5U-1, 1998. (in Japanese)
Satoru FUjita, Suresh Jagannathan, et al., Mobile and Distributed Agents in Mobidget, poster paper in ASA/MA 99, 1999.

Year of first publication of systems description: 1998

Project URL: none

Contacts Email Address: mobidget-support@swl.cl.nec.co.jp

Last modification date of this entry: Thu Jul 8 05:06:08 MET DST 1999


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