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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