Implementation of a Prototype System

 After the development of concepts for adaptation in the former sections the implementation of a prototype system will be presented in this section.

The implementation of the adaptation framework is both independent of the configuration task and independent of the agent system. It provides the infrastructure for the remote loading of profiles and implementation classes, the evaluation of profiles and the dynamic transparent linking of implementation classes into the core. This presumes that the mobile code is programmed according to the design pattern as presented in section .

The configuration of the browser relies on the adaptation mechanism. It implements the configuration of a set of web browsers running on various operating systems and CPU architectures. The configuration is brought to the different hosts by a mobile agent using the Voyager agent system platform [#!Voy2000!#].

Because of the independence of the adaptation framework it is convenient to describe it first and then to continue with the implementation of the remaining parts of the prototype system.