Package jade.domain

This package and its sub-packages contains FIPA specific agents and ontologies. Standard FIPA system agents implementations are held within this package:

• AMS agent to manage agent platform life cycle for platform agents and to hold white pages informations about them.
• DF agent to keep yellow pages informations about agents, allowing multi-domain applications throug DF federation.

The standard fipa-agent-management ontology is represented by the classes contained in the jade.domain.FIPAAgentManagement sub-package.

A proprietary ontology, that allows the implementation of agent mobility, is represented by a class of this package.

Lastly, the package contains a JADE extension to the FIPA-Agent-Management ontology that is used, among the others, to allow platform administration via the RMA GUI.

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
DFGUIAdapter	This interface must be implemented by a GUI that wants to interact with the DF agent.
DFGUIInterface	This interface is used to avoid any relationship between the df and the tools packages.
FIPANames	This class provides a single access point for the set of constants already defined by FIPA.
FIPANames.ACLCodec	Set of constants that identifies the Codec of ACL Messages and that can be assigned via ACLMessage.getEnvelope().setAclRepresentation(FIPANames.ACLCodec.BITEFFICIENT);
FIPANames.ContentLanguage	Set of constants that identifies the content languages and that can be assigned via ACLMessage.setLanguage(FIPANames.ContentLanguage.SL0)
FIPANames.InteractionProtocol	Set of constants that identifies the Interaction Protocols and that can be assigned via ACLMessage.setProtocol(FIPANames.InteractionProtocol.FIPA_REQUEST)
FIPANames.MTP	Set of constants that identifies the Message Transport Protocols.
FIPANames.Ontology	Set of constants that identifies the Ontology of ACL Messages and that can be assigned via ACLMessage.setOntology(FIPANames.Ontology.SL0_ONTOLOGY);

Class Summary

Class	Description
ams	Standard Agent Management System agent.
AMSEventQueueFeeder
AMSService	This class provides a set of static methods to communicate with a AMS Service that complies with FIPA specifications.
df	Standard Directory Facilitator agent.
DFDBKB	This class implements a knowledge base used by the DF which stores its content in an external database.
DFHSQLKB	DFHSQLKB realizes a knowledge base used by the DF which stores its content in an HSQL database, running in the same VM.
DFKBFactory	The DFKBFactory class creates knowledge base objects used by the DF.
DFMemKB
DFService	This class provides a set of static methods to communicate with a DF Service that complies with FIPA specifications.
DFSubscriber
FIPAService	This class provides a set of basic and static methods to perform the FIPA Agent Management actions.
RequestFIPAServiceBehaviour	This class extends the FipaRequestIntiatorBehaviour in order to request an agent, e.g.
RequestManagementBehaviour	Base class for AMS and DF behaviours managing requests from agents.

Exception Summary

Exception	Description
FIPAException	This class represents a generic FIPAException, i.e.
RequestFIPAServiceBehaviour.NotYetReady	Exception class for timeouts.