aminePlatform.mas.amineJade
Class AmineJadeMas

java.lang.Object
  aminePlatform.mas.AmineMAS
      aminePlatform.mas.amineJade.AmineJadeMas

All Implemented Interfaces:

IAmineMAS

public class AmineJadeMas

extends AmineMAS

Title : AmineJadeMas class

Description : AmineJadeMas is the class that allows to create a new MAS.

Copyright : Copyright (c) Adil KABBAJ 2004-2009

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class aminePlatform.mas.AmineMAS

create, hmpAgents, incAgentsNbr, myGui, nbrAgents

Constructor Summary

AmineJadeMas(java.lang.String name, java.lang.String[] args)
The constructor of this class is the method to use to create a new MAS.

Method Summary

static AmineAgent	getAgent(Identifier id)
static AmineAgent	getAgentById(java.lang.String id)
void	init(java.lang.String[] args)

Methods inherited from class aminePlatform.mas.AmineMAS

createNewHmpAgents, getNbrAgents, init, isIdAgent, setFreeHmpAgents, setNbrAgents

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

AmineJadeMas

public AmineJadeMas(java.lang.String name,
                    java.lang.String[] args)

The constructor of this class is the method to use to create a new MAS. To do so, the programmer has to provide the name of the MAS and an array of Strings. Each element of the array represents parameters of one agent. That means that the size of the array corresponds to the number of agents of your system. It is not to the programmer to create the agents, the programmer only provides parameters of every agent. The call to this constructor (thanks to Jade Platform) would create the associated processes for every agent. The programmer can then have access to these agents (pointer to the corresponding process) using the getAgentById method

Parameters:

name - A String

args - An array of Strings containing parameters of agents. Each String should respect the following structure: agent's name:the path of agent's class(arguments separated by a space) For example, the String "John:aminePlatform.agent.amineJade.AmineJadeAgent(John.pcg ontology.xml)" represents an agent that has the name John, its class is AmineJadeAgent that exists in the path aminePlatform/agent/amineJade and the arguments of John are the files John.pcg and ontology.xml

Method Detail

getAgentById

public static AmineAgent getAgentById(java.lang.String id)

getAgent

public static AmineAgent getAgent(Identifier id)

init

public void init(java.lang.String[] args)

Specified by:

init in interface IAmineMAS

Specified by:

init in class AmineMAS