The HARNESS Active Agents Compatibility Suite

摘要

HARNESS is an experimental Java-centric metacomputing system based on distributed object oriented technolgy. Its main feature is the capability to mix and match heterogeneous programming models on top of virtual machines. HARNESS virtual machines can be dynamically assembled, managed and dismantled under user control and are reconfigurable both in terms of resources enrolled and in terms of services offered. In this paper we describe how the HARNESS system supports the active, mobile agents programming model.