Mobile Agents - Software on the move

Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu

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Jul 21, 2005

CPOL

26 min read

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What if objects could move from machine to machine? Not just automated downloads, or remotely controlling objects as in remoting, but a system in which the object actually moves about. Mobile software agents do exactly that. In this article I will provide an introduction to this fascinating concept.