Some research on componentware frameworks based on mobile agent technology

• Authors: Jian Lu
• Venue: ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
• Year: 2004

With the development of mobile agent technology and the applications of componentware, the requirements for a new componentware framework based on mobile agent technology are increasing. These requirements include requirements from programming methodology, requirements from componentware, and requirements from mobile agent technology. According to these requirements and after analyzing the limitations of "traditional" component software, this paper presents some ideas about what the mobile agent technology can do to overcome these limitations. Then based on the above analysis and the mobile agent technology, this paper proposes three new conceptual componentware frameworks. They include an adjustable componentware framework, a smart componentware framwork, and a flexible framework. These new frameworks provides much more flexibility than the traditional componentware frameworks and more suitable to the open environment of Internet. In order to support previously proposed new conceptual componentware frameworks based on mobile agent technology, some issues about the infrastructure, methodology and technical challenge are also discussed in this paper. Our goal is to build a new componentware framework based on mobile agent technology, overcome the limitations of the current approaches, and further popularize the Internet by giving people greater access to it with less effort.