Plain Socket (PLS) Communication Service

The plain socket communication service provides the Agent System with the capability to do its communication over plain sockets and to not have to rely on RMI. Some smaller Java implementations (Personal Java Edition, Micro Java Edition) do not have a RMI service implemented and therefore a basic communication protocol was needed for the platform.

Figure: Plain Socket Communication Service

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The Figure on page shows the structure of the PLSCommService. The main difference to the general structure (see ) is the use of the class CommunicationServer.