JADEProgramming-Tutorial-for-beginners

JADE TUTORIAL JADE PROGRAMMING FOR BEGINNERS USAGE RESTRICTED ACCORDING TO LICENSE AGREEMENT. last update: 04 December 2003. JADE 3.1 Authors: Giovanni Caire (TILAB, formerly CSELT) Copyright (C) 2000 CSELT S.p.A. Copyright (C) 2001 TILab S.p.A. Copyright (C) 2002S.p.A. JADE - Java Agent DEvelopment Framework is a framework to develop multi-agent systems in compliance with the FIPA st ndspecifications. JADE successfully passed the 1 FIPA interoperability test in Seoul (Jan. 99) and the 2 FIPA interoperability test in London (Apr. 01). Copyright (C) 2000 CSELT S.p.A. (C) 2001 TILab S.p.A. (C) 2002 TILab S.p.A. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2.1 of the License. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 JADE OVERVIEW 4 1.1 Containers and Platforms 4 1.2 AMS and DF 5 2 THE “BOOK TRADING” EXAMPLE 5 3 CREATING JADE AGENTS – THE AGENT CLASS 6 3.1 Agent ...