A Free Programming Framework to Support Highly Dynamic Distributed Computing

摘要

The growth of the Internet and the advances in networking technologies demand for new forms of distributed computing, such as large-scale, highly decentralized computing and mobile computing. However, such forms of distributed computing require new adaptive and flexible middlewares and frameworks able to exploit logical mobility and to support programmable coordination infrastructures. This paper presents a free, customizable Java-based programming framework for the development of highly dynamic distributed applications based on a computational model that extends an "active object" model by introducing the "mobile active object" concept in order to support a multi paradigm design approach. In particular, mobile active objects are autonomous network-aware entities or mobile agents which coordinate to one another through on-demand installable interaction spaces featured by events.