Mobile agents & perl: Choices

Agent.pm By Steve Purkis

• From http://tiamat.epn.nu/~spurkis/Agent:

  "Agent - the Transportable Agent Perl module --

  A transportable perl agent is Perl code that can communicate with other disparate entities, and can migrate between computers over a heterogeneous network to perform some task for a client."

• Snips from the perldoc:

  A Perl Agent...

  "Is any chunk of Perl code that can accomplish some user-defined objective by communicating with other agents, and manipulating any data it obtains.

• last CPAN record:

  Agent-3.20.tar.gz       15-Dec-1998 09:38    20k
  

• Example:

  Step One: Open window 1 and begin the Static program (receiver):

  Step Two: Open window 2 and begin the Hello World agent (agent):

  Step Three: Look at window 1 and see the result!