jade.core.behaviours
Class SenderBehaviour

java.lang.Object
  jade.core.behaviours.Behaviour
      jade.core.behaviours.SimpleBehaviour
          jade.core.behaviours.OneShotBehaviour
              jade.core.behaviours.SenderBehaviour

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable

public final class SenderBehaviour
extends OneShotBehaviour

Behaviour for sending an ACL message. This class encapsulates a send() as an atomic operation. This behaviour sends a given ACL message and terminates.

Version:

$Date: 2003-11-25 09:24:45 +0100 (mar, 25 nov 2003) $ $Revision: 4601 $

Author:

Giovanni Rimassa - Universita` di Parma

See Also:

ReceiverBehaviour, Agent.send(ACLMessage msg), ACLMessage, Serialized Form

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class jade.core.behaviours.Behaviour

Behaviour.RunnableChangedEvent

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class jade.core.behaviours.Behaviour

myAgent, myEvent, NOTIFY_DOWN, NOTIFY_UP, parent, STATE_BLOCKED, STATE_READY, STATE_RUNNING

Constructor Summary

SenderBehaviour(Agent a, ACLMessage msg)
Send a given ACL message.

Method Summary

void	action() Actual behaviour implementation.

Methods inherited from class jade.core.behaviours.OneShotBehaviour

done

Methods inherited from class jade.core.behaviours.SimpleBehaviour

reset

Methods inherited from class jade.core.behaviours.Behaviour

actionWrapper, block, block, getBehaviourName, getDataStore, getExecutionState, getParent, getRestartCounter, handle, handleBlockEvent, handleRestartEvent, isRunnable, onEnd, onStart, restart, root, setAgent, setBehaviourName, setDataStore, setExecutionState

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

SenderBehaviour

public SenderBehaviour(Agent a,
                       ACLMessage msg)

Send a given ACL message. This constructor creates a SenderBehaviour which sends an ACL message.

Parameters:

a - The agent this behaviour belongs to, and that will send() the message.

msg - An ACL message to send.

Method Detail

action

public void action()

Actual behaviour implementation. This method sends an ACL message, using either the given AgentGroup or the :receiver message slot to get the message recipient names.

Specified by:

action in class Behaviour

See Also:

CompositeBehaviour