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2. IBM's Aglet
Aglet is one of the earliest mobile agent systems based on Java. Its name is the
combination of agent and applet. It can be seen as an applet object which has
agent characteristics. Aglet was produced as a thread on one machine. It can stop
running work at any time and transfer the unfinished work to another machine.
From concept, an aglet is a mobile object. It supports autonomic running and can
be moved from a machine to another machine which has the aglet running
environment.
Aglet build a simply but all-sided mobile agent programming framework. It
provides dynamic and effective communication mechanism for mobile agent
communication. It also hold a detailed and easy-to-use security mechanism.
These simplified the mobile agent development.
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Recursion's Voyager
Voyager can be seen as an improved object request broker. Comparing with other
mobile agent systems, Voyager has deeper relation with Java language. It can be
used to develop mobile agent systems and create distributed systems. Voyager is
a pure Java distributed computing platform which can quickly generate high
performance distributed application programs. It is a good mobile agent
development platform which represents the current technology level.
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14.7 Multi-Agent Environment MAGE
Multi-Agent Environment (MAGE) is an agent-oriented software development,
integration and run environment developed by Intelligence Science Laboratory,
Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences(Shi et
al,2003). It provides users a software deployment and system integration mode
which includes requirement analysis, system design and agent generation. It also
provides multi software reuse mode which is beneficial for agent software. It can
also wrapper other legacy systems to quickly integrate as a new software.
14.7.1
The architecture of MAGE
MAGE System framework includes requirement analysis and modeling toolkit
AUMP, visual agent studio and multi agent run-time environment MAGE. The
structure of MAGE is as figure 14.14. AUMP support agent-oriented analysis
