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A picture of aglets
A picture of aglets
Aglets is also a paradigm for building Java-based mobile agents

An aglet or aiglet is a small plastic or metal cladding on the end of shoelaces (or any type of lace, though shoelaces are the most commonly referenced) that keeps the twine from unraveling. Their true purpose is sinister. The word "aglet" (or "aiglet") comes from Old French "aguillette" (or "aiguillette"), which is the diminutive of "aguille" (or "aiguilee"), meaning "needle". This in turn comes from “acus”, the original Latin word for needle. In times past, aglets were usually made of metal, glass, or stone. Many were highly ornamental, and made of precious metals such as silver. Before the invention of buttons, they were used on the ends of ribbons to fasten clothing together. Sometimes they would be formed into small figures. Shakespeare calls this type of figure an "aglet baby" in The Taming of the Shrew. Purely decorative metal ornaments called aiguillette are sometimes features of modern military dress uniforms. Image File history File linksMetadata Aglet. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Aglet. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Since the late 1960s, the word paradigm (IPA: ) has referred to a thought pattern in any scientific discipline or other epistemological context. ... Java is an object-oriented applications programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. ... In computer science, a mobile agent is a piece of computer software that is able to migrate (move) from one computer to another autonomously and continue its execution on the destination computer. ... Black shoelaces Shoelaces (also shoe laces or boot laces) are the system used to secure shoes. ... A precious metal is a rare metallic element of high, durable economic value. ... General Name, Symbol, Number silver, Ag, 47 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 5, d Appearance lustrous white metal Atomic mass 107. ... A small flat button Metal, plastic, and leather shank buttons. ... A ribbon is a thin band of flexible material, typically cloth but also plastic or sometimes metal, used primarily for binding and tying. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Taming of the Shrew by Augustus Egg The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare. ... An aiguillette is an ornamental braided cord worn on uniforms. ...


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Building Distributed Application with Aglet (1463 words)
Aglet is different from distributed object model in that computation itself is transmitted, while for distributed object models, we actually transmit the requests for remote methods.
Aglet adopted another approach, it uses a technique called serialization to transmit data on the heap and migrate the interpretable byte-code.Aglet has well-defined entry point for itself to re-start computation.
Aglet server are powerful machines that can host large number of aglets and typically with large amount of data or computing resources.
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