System Name: Telescript
Current Version: None.
Organization: General Magic, Inc.
Entry status: authoritative
Supported platforms:
Solaris.
NT.
Supported languages:
Telescript.
Implemented standards: None.
Type of migration:
Strong.
How many threads or processes are possible per agent? 1
Local communication mechanisms and format of data:
Agent-to-agent communication via method invocation after MEET operation.
Agent-to-place communication via method invocation after GO operation.
Intra-place communication via events.
Place-to-platform communication via EXTERNAL METHOD invocation.
Global communication mechanisms:
Agent migration.
How the communication partner can be addressed:
By certain combinations of name, address, and class.
Resource access control mechanism:
Permits.
Agent tracking:
None.
Directory of services:
None (a directory is an agent-based application).
Type of code migration:
All classes as a whole from sending host.
Other special features:
Places abstract the locales of agents and thus the sources and destinations of the trips that agents make.
Permits control agent consumption of resources, esp. time and space.
Place and agent state safe-stored to disk.
Availability:
Not available.
License terms:
None.
Article that describe the current system best:
"Mobile agents", J. White.
Software Agents, J. Bradshaw (ed.), AAAI Press /The MIT Press, 1996.
Year of first publication of systems description: 1994
Project URL: None.
Contacts Email Address: white@genmagic.com
Last modification date of this entry: Wed Aug 25 18:33:48 MET DST 1999