If the Internet is seen as a single, vast, programmable machine, what is the proper programming paradigm to facilitate development of the new applications it must offer? This state-of-the-art survey deals with this question. The situation we face is similar to that in the 1960s, when a new hardware/software architecture was introduced and it took some time for the programming-language and operating-system specialists to come up with the proper programming paradigms. Now we have the new and exciting paradigm of mobile computing, where computations are not bound to single locations but may move around at will to best use the available computer network resources. This paradigm will have a profound impact on the way distributed applications, in particular Internet applications, are designed and implemented.
Author(s): Luca Cardelli (auth.), Jan Vitek, Christian Tschudin (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1222
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1997
Language: English
Pages: 326
Tags: Computer Communication Networks; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
Mobile computation....Pages 1-6
Objectworld....Pages 7-22
Commentary on “Objectworld”....Pages 23-24
Mobile agents: Are they a good idea?....Pages 25-45
Mobile agents: Are they a good idea? — update....Pages 46-47
A note on distributed computing....Pages 49-64
Afterword....Pages 65-66
Instruction-based communications....Pages 67-90
Analyzing mobile code languages....Pages 91-109
Sumatra: A language for resource-aware mobile programs....Pages 111-130
Migratory applications....Pages 131-148
The messenger environment MØ — A condensed description....Pages 149-156
Mobility and persistence....Pages 157-175
Security and communication in mobile object systems....Pages 177-194
Safe and secure execution mechanisms for mobile objects....Pages 201-211
Jada: Coordination and communication for Java agents....Pages 213-226
Performance-oriented implementation strategies for a mobile agent language....Pages 227-243
Dynamic linking for mobile programs....Pages 245-262
Adaptive compression of syntax trees and iterative dynamic code optimization: Two basic technologies for mobile object systems....Pages 263-276
A type-based implementation of a language with distributed scope....Pages 277-292
Interaction of java and telescript agents....Pages 295-312
