Peer-to-peer (P2P) technology has arisen as a simple and user-friendly mechanism for information sharing and global user communication not relying on a central server. In this paper an attempt to exploit this emerging technology in the area of agent location management is made. In particular the JXTA platform has been used in order to create a two-level agent location scheme, which combines advantages of centralization in a local region with the flexibility of P2P mechanism on a broader level. The implementation of the proposed approach, which has been built on top of the MAP agent system, is compared with more traditional techniques for agent location, based on a naming service. Comparisons among the two approaches are presented together with some hints helping to identify the best approach in each considered scenario.