Transparent migration of Java-based mobile agents: Capturing and re-establishing the state of Java programs.

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Title: Transparent migration of Java-based mobile agents: Capturing and re-establishing the state of Java programs.
Authors: Fünfrocken, Stefan
Source: Personal Technologies; Jun1998, Vol. 2 Issue 2, p109-116, 8p
Abstract: In this paper we describe a way to save and restore the state of a running Java program. We achieve this on the language level, without modifying the Java virtual machine, by instrumenting the programmer's original code with a preprocessor. The automatically inserted code saves the runtime information when the program requests state saving and re-establishes the program's runtime state on restart. The current preprocessor prototype is used in a mobile agent scenario to offer transparent agent migration for Java-based mobile agents, but could generally be used to save and re-establish the execution state of any Java program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstract:In this paper we describe a way to save and restore the state of a running Java program. We achieve this on the language level, without modifying the Java virtual machine, by instrumenting the programmer's original code with a preprocessor. The automatically inserted code saves the runtime information when the program requests state saving and re-establishes the program's runtime state on restart. The current preprocessor prototype is used in a mobile agent scenario to offer transparent agent migration for Java-based mobile agents, but could generally be used to save and re-establish the execution state of any Java program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:09492054
DOI:10.1007/BF01324941