org.iids.aos.agents
Class MAClient

java.lang.Object
  org.iids.aos.agent.Agent
      org.iids.aos.agents.MAClient

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable

public class MAClient
extends Agent

Simple Chat Messenger Agent

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

MAClient()

Method Summary

void	cleanUp() User definable cleanup of the agent before stopping.
void	run() To be implemented by the agent.

Methods inherited from class org.iids.aos.agent.Agent

agentRunning, createAgentHandle, deregister, getAgentCPUtime, getAgentHandles, getApi, getArgs, getContext, getCurrentLocation, getLocations, getLocations, getLog, getOwnerHandle, getPrimaryHandle, getServlet, getServletNames, getToken, initAgent, kill, lookup, lookup, lookupPublished, lookupPublished, move, move, publish, publishServlet, receiveMessage, receiveMessage, receiveMessages, receiveMessages, register, removeAgentHandle, sendMessage, sendMessages, start, stopRunning, waitForCompletion

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

MAClient

public MAClient()

Method Detail

run

public void run()

Description copied from class: Agent

To be implemented by the agent. This is the main method of the Agent. This method is called by AgentScape as soon as the agent starts.

Once this function finishes, the agent is done. This can be preceded by a successful call to move(AgentScapeID) if the agent should continue to run on another location. If no successful move was done beforehand, then the agent is removed from the location.

Note that it is assumed that, once an agent moved to another location, this method will finish soon afterwards. There is no protection against this (yet) however.

Any cleanup operations can be done by implementing Agent.cleanUp().

Specified by:

run in class Agent

See Also:

cleanup, move

cleanUp

public void cleanUp()

Description copied from class: Agent

User definable cleanup of the agent before stopping. This method is called by the method Agent.stopRunning(), which is called by AgentScape whenever the agent moves or is (being) killed. An Agent-developer can override this method to perform any cleanup necessary before the agent is stopped permanently, such as stopping any threads this agent has created or removing any windows that have been put on the screen.

This method may not throw any Exceptions.

Overrides:

cleanUp in class Agent