Introduction

JADE offers a graphical interface to platform administration through its RMA agent; this agent shows the state of the Agent Platform it belongs to (agents and agent containers) and offers various tools to request administrative action from the AMS agent and to debug and test JADE-based applications.

 
 

Starting the RMA

An RMA is a Java object, instance of the class jade.tools.rma.rma and can either be started:

  1. on the command line as an ordinary agent (i.e. with the command java jade.Boot myConsole:jade.tools.rma.rma)
  2. by supplying the '- gui' argument on th command line parameters ( (i.e. with java jade.Boot –gui command).
More than one RMA can be started on the same platform as long as every instance has a different local name, but only one for a given agent container.

The figure below shows the RMA GUI.


     

JADE is a trademark of Telecom Italia. JADE has been developed jointly by Telecom Italia and the Computer Engineering Group of the University of Parma