Another powerful mechanism for agent communication is KQML. For those of you
who are interested, here are a couple of links:
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/kqml/
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/aw.nsf/techmain/28AE41D311EDCA69882566F300703F
63?OpenDocument
- Lalit
> In addition to JavaSpaces, two other options are available, that I know
of.
> One is agent spaces implemented by ObjectSpace's Voyager. Voyager is a
Java
> ORB (Object Request Broker) that has an agent framework. Agents
communicate
> via messages that can be synchronous, asynchronous or broadcasted. The
idea
> is an agent can broadcast in its space.
> Another approach comes from iBus, developed by SoftWired. Applications
can
> publish events to iBus, or subscribe to channels to receive those events.
> An event can be any serializable Java object. They support asynchronous
> push and synchronous pull. The advantage of iBus is that it doesn't
require
> a name server.
> Packaging facts or rules in Java objects is easy. Dealing with such
objects
> (some call them soft objects because you can add dynamically 'attributes'
at
> run time) is an established technique in Java. Another, more
sophisticated,
> technique to be considered for passing around theories in messages is to
use
> mobile agents as messengers. Instead of sending a bare message, one can
> send a messenger that makes sure the message is handled properly along the
> way and at the destination.
>
> Alex George Bejan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ernest Friedman-Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 1:58 PM
> Subject: Re: JESS: Modules ...
>
>
> > JavaSpaces with Jess would be very cool. This is the kind of
> > innovation I like to hear about! I think we've only scratched the
> > surface of what's possible with Jess's Java integration capabilities:
> > remember that every Java API and third-party library can be an
> > opportunity.
> >
> > Remember that recent versions of Jess have 'static' definstances -
> > read manual section 7.7.23 for details. This greatly increases the
> > range of Java classes that can be directly pattern matched.
> >
> > I think Omer F Rana wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Why not use the JavaSpaces API with JESS -- which implements
> > > a `tuple space' (Linda) like model for supporting shared memory?
> > > Are you proposing something like a multicast switch above? What do you
> > > mean by a bb reflector/filter?
> > >
> > > Is the objective of this to share data or to migrate code?
> > >
> > > regards
> > > Omer
> > >
> > >
> > > --
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> scientific
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of
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> >
> >
> >
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> > Ernest Friedman-Hill
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