zeus.agents
Class BasicAgent

java.lang.Object
  zeus.agents.BasicAgent

Direct Known Subclasses:

ACCAgent, ANServer, DbProxy, Facilitator, Visualiser, ZeusAgent

public class BasicAgent

extends java.lang.Object

This class implements the shared agent functionality common to every agent created with the Zeus toolkit.

Field Summary

protected AgentContext	context
static int	CREATE
static int	DEATH
private HSet[]	eventMonitor
static int	RESUME
static int	SUSPEND

Constructor Summary

BasicAgent()

BasicAgent(java.lang.String type, java.lang.String name, java.util.Vector nameservers)

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

Method Summary

void	addAgentMonitor(AgentMonitor monitor, long event_type) Add an AgentMonitor if your code needs to react to Agent-level changes in state
void	addMessageMonitor(MessageMonitor monitor, long event_type) Shortcut to add a MessageMonitor, used if your code needs to react to changes in the state of the mailbox
AgentContext	getAgentContext()
void	notifyMonitors(int type)
void	removeAgentMonitor(AgentMonitor monitor, long event_type)
void	removeMessageMonitor(MessageMonitor monitor, long event_type)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

eventMonitor

private HSet[] eventMonitor

CREATE

public static final int CREATE

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Constant Field Values

DEATH

public static final int DEATH

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SUSPEND

public static final int SUSPEND

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RESUME

public static final int RESUME

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Constant Field Values

context

protected AgentContext context

Constructor Detail

BasicAgent

public BasicAgent()

BasicAgent

public BasicAgent(java.lang.String type,
                  java.lang.String name,
                  java.util.Vector nameservers)

BasicAgent

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

Method Detail

getAgentContext

public AgentContext getAgentContext()

addMessageMonitor

public void addMessageMonitor(MessageMonitor monitor,
                              long event_type)

Shortcut to add a MessageMonitor, used if your code needs to react to changes in the state of the mailbox

removeMessageMonitor

public void removeMessageMonitor(MessageMonitor monitor,
                                 long event_type)

addAgentMonitor

public void addAgentMonitor(AgentMonitor monitor,
                            long event_type)

Add an AgentMonitor if your code needs to react to Agent-level changes in state

removeAgentMonitor

public void removeAgentMonitor(AgentMonitor monitor,
                               long event_type)

notifyMonitors

public void notifyMonitors(int type)