%0 Book Section
%A Bettini, Lorenzo
%A De Nicola, Rocco
%A Loreti, Michele
%B Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (SAC '02)
%D 2002
%F eprints:322
%I ACM
%K distributed software update, mobile agents, mobile code
%P 32-36
%T Software update via mobile agent based programming
%U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/322/
%X We describe a system that permits maintaining the software installed on several heterogeneous computers distributed over a network by taking advantage of the mobile agent paradigm. The applications are installed and updated only on the central server. When a new release of an application is installed on the server, agents are scattered along the network to update the application on the clients.To build a prototype system we use X-KLAIM, a programming language specifically designed to program distributed systems composed of several components interacting through multiple tuple spaces and mobile code.
%Z ACM ID: 508800