Camel: a mobile applications framework

The ability to migrate executing programs from one machine to another has much applicability in mobile computing technology. Users can have their applications travel with them, as they move from one computing environment to another. This paper presents the overall design of a framework to support migratory applications in a networked-environment, called Camel. The framework for adaptive migratory applications, Camel, is an attempt not only to implement migratory applications in Java, but to do this in a way which provides the support for mobile code. Furthermore, the Camel framework is designed specifically to support dynamic and adaptive migratory applications. Camel supports adaptation by migrating the application to another node to avoid congested link, and thus provide an understanding of the adaptation through migration technique.