zeus.agents
Class ANServer

java.lang.Object
  zeus.agents.BasicAgent
      zeus.agents.ANServer

public class ANServer

extends BasicAgent

The implementation of the Zeus Agent Name Server (ANS). An agent society must possess at least one ANS, in order to maintain a registry of known agents, enabling agent identities to be mapped to their logical network location. This is necessary because to ensure location independence agents only know the names of their acquaintances and not their locations.

It is unlikely that users will need to change or call directly any of the methods of this class.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class zeus.agents.BasicAgent

context, CREATE, DEATH, RESUME, SUSPEND

Constructor Summary

ANServer(java.lang.String name, java.util.Vector nameservers, Clock clock)

Method Summary

static void	main(java.lang.String[] arg)
protected static void	usage()
protected static void	version()

Methods inherited from class zeus.agents.BasicAgent

addAgentMonitor, addMessageMonitor, getAgentContext, notifyMonitors, removeAgentMonitor, removeMessageMonitor

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ANServer

public ANServer(java.lang.String name,
                java.util.Vector nameservers,
                Clock clock)

Method Detail

version

protected static void version()

usage

protected static void usage()

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] arg)