Richer functionality can be given to the interaction between processes by allowing code to be sent between them. More convenient, applicationlevel operations can be made over a network. By making higher order language features transmissible, distributed components can be tightly bound together when they communicate. At the same time, familiar distributed systems can be built using mobile code.
Mobile code can make distributed systems adaptable to application needs.
We used an SNMP version of the Ariel server running over ASX 200 Fore switches for our tests. Applying Mobile Code to Distributed Systems. PhD dissertation, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, June 1997. The graph only includes citing articles where the year of publication is known.