A programming language for service-oriented computing with mobile agents

摘要: We present MOB, a service-oriented scripting language, for programming mobile agents. argue that combining the and agent paradigms provides very natural model large class of distributed applications. In agents in network simultaneously provide use services. The service interfaces constitute contracts bind among themselves. language features static type-checking to guarantee are respected at run-time. Other features, such as redundant providers, allow certain degree fault-tolerance by allowing applications switch servers dynamically case failure is detected (e.g. server crash). For these reasons, target we envision more interesting develop using MOB services networks with highly dynamic, volatile resources or simply adaptive, reconfigurable classical networks. paper presents its implementation from an application programmer's systems developer's view. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.