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Due to its salient properties, mobile agent technology has received
a rapidly growing attention over the last few years. Many
developments of mobile agent systems are under way in both academic
and industrial environments. In addition, there are already various
efforts to standardize mobile agent facilities and architectures.
Mole is the first Mobile Agent System that has been developed in the
Java language. The first version has been finished in 1995, and
since then Mole has been constantly improved. Mole provides a stable
environment for the development and usage of mobile agents in the
area of distributed applications. In this paper we describe
implementation techniques for mobility, present communication
concepts we implemented in Mole, discuss security concerning Mobile
Agent Systems, and present system services provided by Mole
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