Aglets is a Java-based

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at the IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory. The original name of the project was AWB (Aglets WorkBench) and IBM was responsible for most of the 1.x release. However the project is now hosted at

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project, where it is distributed under the

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. In the beginning, the SourceForge releases had been only bug-fix ones, but 2.x series (most of which came from open source community only) had better security and thread management. It now includes a

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based logging system and a few bug-fixes of the older versions. Aglets is completely written in Java, thus allowing a high portability of both the agents and the platform. Aglets includes both a complete Java mobile agent platform, with a stand-alone server called Tahiti, and a library that allows developers to build mobile agents and to embed the Aglets technology in their applications. No new releases of Aglets have been made since 2001, although an updated users manual was released in 2004. The future of the project is unclear.

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*http://aglets.sourceforge.net/ — Aglets portal site *https://web.archive.org/web/20100514184915/http://www.trl.ibm.com/aglets/ — IBM Research *http://www.artima.com/underthehood/aglets.html — "The Architecture of Aglets", Bill Venners, April 1997 Java platform software IBM software

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