Package tryllian.are

Core interfaces and classes which create and use mobile agents.

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Description

Interface Summary

AgentEventListener	The interface by which agents are recognized.
DeliveryReport	Information regarding delivery of messages.
HighestPriority	Tagging interface for agents that should be run using the highest possible priority.
HighPriority	Tagging interface for agents that should be run using a high priority.
LowestPriority	Tagging interface for agents that should be run using the lowest possible priority.
LowPriority	Tagging interface for agents that should be run using a low priority.
Message	A message from an agent.
Routine	The Routine interface defines Runnables that can be stopped.
StateSerializable	The StateSerializable interface can be implemented by agents that need a more sophisticated way of persisting themselves other than simple and complete serialization of their entire object hierarchy.
TransientAgent	By implementing the TransientAgent interface an agent tells the habitat that it shouldn't try to serialize the agent for the purpose of persistence.

Class Summary

AgentEvent	Indicates that something interesting has happened.
DelegationWrapper	Factory for wrapping and unwrapping delegate objects.
ExecutionEnvironment	The primary point of contact between an agent and the ARE.
HabitatInfo	A central registration record for a habitat known to the current habitat.
OutgoingMessage	Allows an agent to create a message and send it to a receiver, which is always another agent.

Exception Summary

CoreComponentSetNotFoundException	Signals that the core component set could not be found.
IllegalMessageException	An IllegalMessageException can be thrown when the message is badly formatted, contains invalid data or has become corrupted during transport (this is not likely to happen).
NoSuchAgentException	Signals that an agent wasn't found or registered when it was used as the destination of a message, or as an object of an action.
NoSuchHabitatException	Signals that a habitat wasn't found or registered.
UnregisteredAgentException	Signals that an agent that tried to perform an action in the ExecutionEnvironment wasn't registered: that means it wasn't running.

Package tryllian.are Description

Core interfaces and classes which create and use mobile agents.

The package tryllian.are contains the minimal classes and interfaces to create a mobile agent. By implementing the interface AgentEventListener, any Java object immediately becomes a mobile agent, as far as the Agent Runtime Environment is concerned.

All other classes in this package can be used to give agents additional behavior, with the exception of class DelegationWrapper. This class can only be used by the ARE itself.

Agent developers are encouraged to use the AFC (Agent Foundation Classes) in the tryllian.afc package to create new agents. The AFC builds on top of the bare bones ARE classes defined in this package.