26 Chapter 2 From Client-Server to Mobile Agents
However, Java servlets could employ mobile agents transparently to the user
to complete a task.
2.4 Why Are Mobile Agents a Good Idea?
Now we want to describe some major advantages of mobile agents and try
to explain why they will meet the demands of future distributed systems.
Although mobile agents provide a new and interesting approach to
distributed systems, there must be clear arguments in favor of mobile
agents before they are substituted for more traditional techniques. However,
although we believe that mobile agents are the most promising technology
to solve most of the problems of the networked future, it should be said that
we also believe that mobile agents will supplement many older techniques ...