Implementing Mobile Agent Design Patterns in the JADE framework

Mobile Agents are programs that can migrate between different hosts in an autonomous way, continuing their execution from the point where they stopped before the migration. An approach that can simplify and improve the development of applications based on Mobile Agents are the use of Design Patterns – ideas of solutions for a given problem inside some context. However, despite their potentiality, they have seldom been used in the development of applications based on Mobile Agents. This is perhaps due to the lack of information on mobile agent patterns or how complicated it would be to implement them in a given platform. In this work, we present the implementation of Design Patterns in the JADE framework, showing the experience and results obtained. We expect to stimulate the use of these patterns, showing how they can be implemented and raising interest on the advantages that they can bring.