To-do list for the Mobile Agent System software of OpenAI

Remote Classloader

While there is a mechansim for doing what I call "asynchronous automatic remote classloading", there is still a bug to be worked out. I need someone with strong serialization and classloading knowledge to assist me in tracking down the problem.
The bug shows up during the deserialization process. All of the class data appears to be in the classloader, but in some instances for agents whose data was loaded remotely, deserialization fails saying that the serialVersionUID is "0". This should not be the case for the examples that I was running as they are serializable objects and not proxy classes. It also doesn't happen all of the time and the same objects *always* work fine if they are in the classpath of the receiving node.
If you can help, give me a yell at thornhalo@users.sourceforge.net.
UPDATE: 01-24-2002 This has been resolved. Please reference bug #497365

Security

Security is always a problem with mobile code. I've architected the mobile agent system so that adding security *should* flow smoothly. The addition of the remote classloading definitely increases the risk. I've added a way to disable the remote classloader, but a Java security policy still needs to be implemented. I don't want to lock things down like applets are locked down by having separate classloaders for each applet, but I do want a way to specify permissions that the DaemonServices, Agents, and MobileAgents have. I also want to specify permissions for individual types of these objects.
UPDATE: 01-30-2002 I've put together a brief synopsis of what I'm looking for in terms of security for the agent system.

DaemonServices

I'd like to get some basic DaemonServices written and bundled up with the agent system. Such things as database interfaces or web interfaces or any other "services" that a node could provide are prime candiates. Each service and its related classes should most likely go into its own subpackage in the agent system - like net.openai.ai.agent.database. If you have ideas for services that you'd like to see in the agent system or would like to develop one of the previously mentioned services, contact me at thornhalo@users.sourceforge.net.