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TAgentSys

This section will describe the class TAgentSys which could be used to build system agents. The purpose of the TAgentSys was to provide a special kind of stationary agents that are providing resources for the agents. It has therefor the following methods:

invoke
This method invokes a method given by the method_name parameter with the given parameters (method_param).
getMethods
Returns a hashtable with all methods starting with the special word ``handle'' which should be public accessible. The methods to access the resources of the system agents are distinguished from the normal methods by starting with this word.
A TAgent was thought to access to the resources as with sending message. It would have to give the name of the method and the parameters and would get in return the result of the method invocation with the TAgentSys.



Thomas Letsch 2001-02-21