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This paper investigates the design and implementation of mobile computations in Java. We discuss various issues encountered while building a Java library that allows active objects to migrate transparently from site to site, while still being able to communicate with each other. Several optimizations are introduced, and a set of benchmarks provides valuable figures about the cost of migration in Java: basic cost of migration with and without remote classloading, migration vs. standard remote method invocation in a typical information retrieval application. Our conclusion is that mobile computations are a viable alternative to remote method invocation for a large domain of Java applications that includes Web-based application.
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Baude, F., Caromel, D., Huet, F., Vayssière, J. (2000). Communicating Mobile Active Objects in Java. In: Bubak, M., Afsarmanesh, H., Hertzberger, B., Williams, R. (eds) High Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1823. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45492-6_79
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