EBG is a lazy functional programming language that compiles to the Java Virtual Machine Language. The aims of EBG are to provide the benefits of both FP and Java. This paper describes the design and implementation of agents in EBG that provides an interface to the underlying multi-processing facilities of Java. 1 Introduction EBG [Cla99a] is a higher-order lazy functional programming language that compiles to the Java Virtual Machine [Ven98]. EBG aims to provide all of the advantages of FP including pattern matching, first class functions and automatic type checking [Fie89], in addition to the advantages of Java [Arn98] including portability, multi-processing, networking and graphical user interfaces. This paper describes the design and implementation of agents in EBG. Agents provide an EBG-level interface to the multi-processing facilities of Java and are a step on the path to a longer term goal of providing programming facilities for functional multi-agent systems [Jen98]. Age...