Package jade.core

This package contains the microkernel of JADE system.

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Description

Interface Summary

Location

Abstract interface to represent JADE network locations.

Class Summary

Agent	The Agent class is the common superclass for user defined software agents.
AID	This class represents a JADE Agent Identifier.
ContainerID	A class identifying an aget container in the JADE platform.
MicroRuntime	This class is used to start up the JADE runtime as a split (front-end) container.
Profile	This class allows retrieving configuration-dependent classes.
ProfileImpl	This class allows the JADE core to retrieve configuration-dependent classes and boot parameters.
Runtime	The singleton instance (accessible through the instance() static method) of this class allows controlling the JADE runtime system from an external application.
Specifier	This class represent a specifier and collects a name, a className, and an array of arguments.

Exception Summary

NotFoundException	This exception is thrown when some component (agent, agent container, etc.) cannot be found in the agent platform data structures.
ProfileException	This class represents an exception related to JADE profile creation or management.

Package jade.core Description

This package contains the microkernel of JADE system. Three main assets are contained within this software package:

1. Base Agent class, with fundamental message passing and behaviour scheduling capabilities.
2. Distributed objects runtime environment to support agent platform.
3. Set of pre-built behaviours for basic task structuring needs.

This package features provide a simple message passing system with multiple transport protocols (Java events within the same Java Virtual Machine, RMI across Java Virtual Machines belonging to the same JADE platform, and standard IIOP protocol to communicate with different agent platforms) and a multithreaded execution environment for software agents, with preemptive inter-agent scheduling and cooperative intra-agent scheduling.