After introducing the concept of mobile agents and potential
application domains, we motivate why mobile agent technology is an
interesting concept for large Internet-based system structures. We then
describe the Java-based WASP agent environment which integrates agent
execution platforms into WWW servers and thus promotes a world wide
infrastructure for mobile agents. We sketch first prototype
applications, and we mention some unique aspects of the WASP project
such as fully transparent migration of Java objects and the use of the
Java Card as a trusted computing base for agents. Finally we report on
some experiences we gained when realizing our mobile agent system.