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Contents
The new Platform
Subsections
Requirements
General Targets
Design and Implementation
Design
Resource Access
Naming Conventions
Helper Classes
Packages
System
Configuration
AgentSystemID
Hashes
MASIF Classes
AgentSystem Class
Initializing
Resource maintaining
The Output Framework
Creation of a System Agent
Creation of an Agent
Controlling of (System) Agents
Shutdown
Methods of the PlatformCommunicationIFace
General Methods for (System) Agents
System Agents
Communication Services
Interface Structures
PlatformCommunicationIFace
AgentCommIFace
Moving an Agent
Sending synchronous Messages
Sending FutureMessages
The MAFFinderServiceProxy
RMI Communication Service
The RMI Registry
Structure and exported Objects
Configuration Options
Plain Socket (PLS) Communication Service
The CommunicationServer
The Protocol used
Configuration Options
MAFFinder Service
Structure
Information provided
The real MAFFinder
Auxiliary Classes
Standard Conformity
Admin System Agents
The Output Framework
SystemAdminIFace
The ConsoleAdmin
The GUIAdmin
Commands
Agents
AgentIFace
Structure of an Agent
The AgentHelper
The AgentLoader
Thread controlling in Java
Agent Class
Execution State
Auxiliary Methods
The Agent Control Methods
Users Guide
Creating an Agent
Extending the basic Agent
initUser()
startUser()
suspendUser()
terminateUser()
Command Queue
Resource Access
getMAFFinder()
getCommunicationService(String agentsystem)
helper.getProxy(String proxyInterface)
Helper
Example Agent
Creating a System Agent
Extending the basic SysAgent
initUser()
startUser()
stopUser()
concludeUser()
SysAgentHelper
Service Proxies
Thomas Letsch 2001-02-21
