Mobile Agents

7.2 Using the Kalong Component  263

In lines 9 and 10 all valid states for data items are defined. A description of

each method can be found in the documentation on the Web site.

7.2.3 Interface IAgentManager

During the process of receiving an agent from the network, Kalong commu-

nicates to the agent manager using interface IAgentManager.

1 public interface IAgentManager

2{

3 public Object startInMigration();

4 public boolean receivedInMigration( Object handle, String agentName,

String agentOwner, String [] homeAgency, String[] lastAgency );

5 public ProtectionDomain getProtectionDomain( Object handle );

6 public void startAgent( Object handle, Serializable agent,

URL destination );

7 // ...

8}

The first method is called before an SATP header is received ...