Protection and Interoperability for Mobile Agents: A Secure and Open Programming Environment ∗
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Cesare Stefanelli · 2000
components designed with different programming styles. SOMA grants interoperability by closely considering compliance with the OMG CORBA and MASIF standards. SOMA has already shown the feasibility and effectiveness of the approach for the development of flexible and adaptive applications in several areas, particularly in network and systems management. key words: Mobile Agents, Security, Interoperability, CORBA, Network and Systems Management. 1. Introduction Global distributed systems such as the Internet and the Web have proposed a new framework for application development and have motivated the interest in new programming paradigms based on mobile and dynamic entities. Remote Evaluation, Code On Demand and Mobile Agents (MA) [1] [2] [3] propose the migration not only of data but also of code over the network, to improve the flexibility of the traditional client/server (C/S) model. The MA model differs from the above ones because it allows executing en