Research on Electronic Commerce Model Based on Mobile Agent Framework: A Case Study

Combination of mobile Agent, Aglet platform and the Java language, this paper presents a security framework of e-commerce based on mobile agents and its implementation. In electronic shopping process, for example, the security issues of a mobile agent encountered in the system was detailed analysis when it migrated, registration, licensing and information exchange, and so on. The security framework model shows mobile agent technology how to guarantee the safety of the trade from four aspects including how to protect the data of a agent, how to protect the agent against malicious host or other malicious agents, and how to protect the host against the malicious agents. This study provides the new research methods and technical ideas for effectively solve the e-commerce security problems.