Transparent migration of Java-based mobile agents: Capturing and re-establishing the state of Java programs

In this paper we describe a way to save and restore the state of a running Java program. We achieve this on the language level, without modifying the Java virtual machine, by instrumenting the programmer's original code with a preprocessor. The automatically inserted code saves the runtime information when the program requests state saving and re-establishes the program's runtime state on restart. The current preprocessor prototype is used in a mobile agent scenario to offer transparent agent migration for Java-based mobile agents, but could generally be used to save and re-establish the execution state of any Java program.

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