Design and Structure

This chapter will describe the former TAgents System. This System was developed by Jose Luis Hernandez as his diploma thesis at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in 1999 / 2000.

Figure: Structure of the old TAgents System

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The Figure shows the structure of the old platform. The basic class, TAgentSite, is created through a RMI request from the TAgentSiteLauncher (or XTAgentSiteLauncher). The launcher application is used to control the platform over the net. The TAgentLauncher has to be started after creating a new site to start and maintain Agents on this site. This means that every platform has its own TAgentSiteLauncher to control it and to start Agents and every Agent has its own TAgentLauncher to control it like starting / stopping it and sending messages to it. The launchers are graphical or text mode applications.