Integrating Distributed Component and Mobile Agents programming models in Grid computing

In this paper we investigate the feasibility of integration of two different programming models in order to exploit the advantages of each one and to overcome their weakness in a heterogeneous environment made of desktop networks and Virtual Organizations sharing powerful Grid platforms. We present a possible approach that will be exploited to integrate two already available frameworks (DG-ADAJ and MAgDA), which adopt respectively the Distributed Components and the Mobile Agents models to support distributed programming.