This was discontinued due to more or less timing and political reasons. It was a great idea, long before SOAP came about ! We introduce a new approach for monitoring and control of mobile entities and other active objects in an distributed environment where objects and associated properties are highly dynamic and thus hard to control, maintain and debug. We propose Web-based access to collections of active objects and introduce the concepts of accesspoint and microserver. An accesspoint is a handle to a collection of objects, visible from the outside world. A microserver is a ultra-light software thread associated with an access point and a corresponding collection of objects. The properties and objects exported by the microserver are accessible through various external protocols and extensions of known protocols such as HTTP or SOAP. A microserver enables dynamic access to the system's active objects including agents in a transparent and portable fashion. A microserver can be deployed at any access point in the system, in a transparent manner, without interferring with the nominal system usage. The free uServer implementation and accesspoint API 0.9 beta very soon to be released. Please stay tuned. Email us at bond-devel@cs.purdue.edu.

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