/**
 * Section 5.6 page 112
 *
**/
import jade.core.Runtime;
import jade.core.*;
import jade.wrapper.*;

public class StartBuyerAgent {

  public static void main(String args[]) {
    StartBuyerAgent s = new StartBuyerAgent();
    s.startBuyerAgent("localhost", "1099", "newBuyer");
  }

  public AgentController startBuyerAgent(String host, // JADE Book Trading environment Main Container host
                                         String port, // JADE Book Trading environment Main Container port
                                         String name // Book Buyer agent name
                                        ) {
    // Retrieve the singleton instance of the JADE Runtime
    Runtime rt = Runtime.instance();

    // Create a main container to host the Book Buyer agent 
    Profile p = new ProfileImpl();
    p.setParameter(Profile.MAIN_HOST, host);
    p.setParameter(Profile.MAIN_PORT, port);
    ContainerController cc = rt.createMainContainer(p); // notice that in the book it was rt.createAgentContainer(p) which requires a main-container to be already active
    if (cc != null) {
      // Create the Book Buyer agent and start it
      try {
        AgentController ac = cc.createNewAgent(name, "bookTrading.buyer.BookBuyerAgent", null);
        ac.start();
        return ac;
      }
      catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
      }
    }
    return null;
  }
}