%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.
%D 2002
%L eprints322
%K distributed software update, mobile agents, mobile code
%A Lorenzo Bettini
%A Rocco De Nicola
%A Michele Loreti
%R 10.1145/508791.508800
%B Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (SAC '02)
%P 32-36
%T Software update via mobile agent based programming
%I ACM
%O ACM ID: 508800