None of the mobile agent libraries are compatable. Each require a specific server to be running at the destination site for an agent to be able to migrate there. Aglets Workbench Aglets is a Java library developed by Tokyo Research Laboratories, IBM Japan. Aglets provides a base class called Aglet from which all mobile agents are derived. An agent derived from this base class is called an aglet .
Aglets uses an event driven model of mobile agents.
That is, an aglet responds to various events such as moving requests, communication requests and cloning requests. For instructions of how to set up your environment to be able to run and use Aglets see the AWB Installation Guide . Odyssey Odyssey is a rewrite of Telescript, the first commercial mobile agent language, as a Java library. Odyssey has been designed with e-commerce in mind. An online Java magazine.