Package jade.lang.acl

This package contains the support for the FIPA Agent Communication Language (ACL) including the ACLMessage class, the parser, the encoder, and an helper class for representing templates of ACL messages.

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
ACLCodec	Abstract interface for converting ACL messages back and forth between Java objects and raw byte sequences, according to a FIPA ACL message representation.
ACLParserConstants
MessageTemplate.MatchExpression	This interface must be overriden in order to define an application specific MessageTemplate.

Class Summary

Class	Description
ACLMessage	The class ACLMessage implements an ACL message compliant to the FIPA 2000 "FIPA ACL Message Structure Specification" (fipa000061) specifications.
ACLParser	Javadoc documentation for the file
ACLParserTokenManager
ConversationList	This class represents a list of conversations that an agent is currently carrying out and allows creating a MessageTemplate that matches only messages that do not belong to any of these conversations.
ISO8601	This class contains a set of static methods that convert to/from the Date Time format adopted by FIPA.
LEAPACLCodec	This class implements the LEAP codec for ACLMessages.
MessageTemplate	A pattern for matching incoming ACL messages.
SimpleCharStream	An implementation of interface CharStream, where the stream is assumed to contain only ASCII characters (without unicode processing).
StringACLCodec	This class implements the FIPA String codec for ACLMessages.
Token	Describes the input token stream.

Exception Summary

Exception	Description
ACLCodec.CodecException	This exception is thrown when some problem occurs in the concrete parsing subsystem accessed through this interface.
ParseException	This exception is thrown when parse errors are encountered.
UnreadableException	Signals that an error occured during the decoding of the content of an ACLMessage using Base64.

Error Summary

Error	Description
TokenMgrError