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Mobile Code
•“Mobile code” defined as “software that travels on a
heterogeneous network, crossing protection domains,
and automatically executed upon arrival at the
destination”
•protection domains – corporate network or PDA
•excludes cases where code is
–loaded from a shared disk
–downloaded (manually) from the Web
•Mobile code supports a flexible form of distributed
computation where the desired nonlocal computations
need not be known in advance at the execution site
•Advantages
Efficiency
Simplicity and flexibility
Storage
