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aisland: Home: "AIsland's goal is to provide a framework to build and distribute agents.

The framework exposes objects (graphic module, audio module, neural network, fuzzy logic ...)
to an agent developer, who can glue these modules together using a scripting language, initally JavaScript.

Mobile Agents travel between different AIslands. If an Agent requests a module unknown to an AIsland,
the platform will ask the user for permission to load code from another peer. AIslands can persist trust relationships.

The inital version builds on Java and fat clients, facilitating a Java Swing GUI and a BSF/ Rhino engine,
to script against modules sitting on an JMX component bus hosted by an Avalon based micro kernel.

A port to small devices (J2ME - Java phones) is a future option.

An Agent is represented by an XML document and is distributed as a JXTA Codat.
Agents contain script code, which is interpreted by an AIsland (a JXTA peer) in a secure manner.
Host file systems are protected against malicious agents.

Agents and AIslands communicate using JXTA.
Network access through proxies for HTTP (SOAP) and SMTP is supported as well."