Packages

This section should provide an overview of the packages build in the TAgents project. To keep the project at a good level of administration the Java packaging possibility is highly used in all parts of the project.

• [tagents]The basic package is called ``tagents'' and contains only sub-packages and no classes. This is used to identify that a sub-packages that belongs to the TAgents platform.
  • [system]The system sub-package contains all the files used by the platform and which are necessary for running it.
    • [exceptions]This package contains all exceptions that can be thrown by the System. Only the exceptions for the MAFFinder are residing in the maffinder package.
  • [agent]The agent sub-packages contains all files belonging to an Agent.
  • [sysagent]This package contains the basic SysAgent class and all the sub-packages for the different types of System Agent.
    • [admin]This package contains the basic interfaces and proxies for the Admin System Agents and sub-packages for the two existing kinds of Admin System Agents, the ``ConsoleAdmin'' and the ``GUIAdmin''.
    • [communication]The communication package contains the different protocols for communication. Every sub-package is an implementation of one communication protocol as there exist a package for RMI (``rmi'') and for plain socket (``pls'').
    • [maffinder]This contains the region registry MAFFinder as described in the standard. It does not contain any communication specific parts since this belongs to the protocol implementations.
  • [examples]This packages contains example Agents which are used to test the functionality and to show how the System works.