Message handling method, for mobile agent in a distributed computer environment

A computer program product for processing a message, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by a processor to:

• allocate a response identifier corresponding to a conversation between mobile agents;
• receive, in a first agent communication system, a message packet in an attachment in a mobile agent, the packet containing the response identifier;
• use an interpreter for an ontology of the message packet to asynchronously process previously generated conversation threads and to generate one or more new conversation threads based on contents of the message packet, where a determination to process one or more of the previously generated conversation threads or generate one or more of the new conversation threads depends on the response identifier;
• halt the one or more of the previously generated or the one or more of the new conversation threads;
• send the mobile agent to a second agent communication system;
• and
• resume the one or more of the previously generated or the one or more new conversation threads at the second agent communication system.

A message processing method comprising:

• allocating a response identifier corresponding to a conversation between mobile agents;
• receiving, in a first agent communication system, a message packet in an attachment in a mobile agent, the packet containing the response identifier;
• using an interpreter for an ontology of the message packet to asynchronously process previously generated conversation threads and to generate one or more new conversation threads based on contents of the message packet, where a determination to process one or more of the previously generated conversation threads or generate one or more of the new conversation threads depends on the response identifier;
• halting the one or more previously generated or the one or more new conversation threads in an agent manager of the first agent communication system;
• serializing the one or more previously generated or the one or more new conversation threads;
• sending the mobile agent to a second agent communication system;
• de-serializing the one or more previously generated or the one or more new conversation threads by a mobile agent framework of the second agent communication system;
• and
• resuming the one or more previously generated or the one or more new conversation threads in an agent manager of the second agent communication system.