E-mail has been the most mature and widely used way of mail exchanging on Internet. But its ability is far more than this. Virtually,it can be used as a basic facility for data exchanging and automatic processing in various domain applications. From this point of view,a new model of E-mail application is presented in this paper,and based on the new model,we advise a two-layer framework for implementation. In the framework a middleware system EAMS is desigened and implemented with well generality,flexibility and expandability. Also meeting notification is discussed as a typical application.
Mobile agent currently is a hot spot among research fields of Internet technology. The deployment of mo-bile agents over network usually needs extra infrastructure for agent migration and communication,which adds to thedifficulty of popularizing MA systems. We present in this paper an Email-box-based mechanism of agent migrationand communication,which is built on top of the formerly developed MOON-EAMS system. This mechanism,basedon Email formatting skills,utilizes Email for data transfer,and offers a loosely coupled option of agent migration andcommunication,which ,compared to related works ,obtains the advantage of easy implementation,and reduces the riskof network connection failure.
