Re: [jade-develop] containers


Subject: Re: [jade-develop] containers
From: Alexander Osherenko (a.ocherenko@gmx.de)
Date: Wed Aug 14 2002 - 11:16:57 MET DST


Hi Giovanni,

I've tried it myself. The results are attached. I've changed three files
(jade.core.Profile, jade.core.AgentContainerImpl,
jade.core.MainContainerImpl) and added a constant to the Profile (the
changes are really tiny). The only problem I have is that if I instantiate
several agents each in a personal container with the same name (e.g.
JADEContainer) the agents go in the first container JADEContainer and there
are some more empty container JADEContainer.

I create my agents as follows:

 public MyContainer(String args[])
 {
  //parse params to read parameters for the number and location of the
agents
  parseParams(args);
  try
  {
   Runtime rt = Runtime.instance();

   // Create a default profile
   Profile p = new ProfileImpl();

   //AO: I've added this constant
   p.setParameter(Profile.CONTAINER_NAME, "MyContainer");

   // Create a new non-main container, connecting to the default
   // main container (i.e. on this host, port 1099)
   //AO: If there is a container with the given name
   // JADE creates an additional container that remains empty
   //and the agents are going to the first container and not in the created
one
   AgentContainer ac = rt.createAgentContainer(p);

   //create inka agents
   for (int i=1;i<=numberAgents_;i++)
   {
    // Create a new prefix_ agent
    // and pass it a reference to an Object
    AgentController dummy = null;
                                if (numberAgents_>1)
                                    dummy = ac.createNewAgent(prefix_+i,
                                        prefix_, new Object[0]);
                                else
                                    dummy = ac.createNewAgent(prefix_,
                                        prefix_, new Object[0]);

    // Fire up the agent
    dummy.start();
   }
   }
 catch(Exception e) {
   e.printStackTrace();
 }

  }

Is it possible to get a list of containers that I can check whether a
container is available or not and add new agents to the existing container?

Cheers

Alexander Osherenko

----- Original Message -----
From: "Caire Giovanni" <Giovanni.Caire@TILAB.COM>
To: "JADE" <jade-develop@sharon.cselt.it>; "Alexander Osherenko"
<a.ocherenko@gmx.de>
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 8:42 AM
Subject: RE: [jade-develop] containers

> Hi Alexander,
>
> Currently it's not possible to assign a specific name to a container,
though it shouldn't be difficult to implement. Would you be interested in
trying it yourself?
>
> The jade.wrapper.AgentContainer class allows you to control the local
container only (i.e. the container that is running in the local JVM).
Therefore there is no method like rt.getAgentContainer().
> However you can launch and kill agents on a given (local or remote)
container by requesting the AMS to do that. All these actions are included
in the JADEManagementOntology.
>
> Bye
>
> Giovanni
>
> > ----------
> > From: Alexander Osherenko[SMTP:a.ocherenko@gmx.de]
> > Sent: luned́ 12 agosto 2002 17.09
> > To: JADE
> > Subject: [jade-develop] containers
> >
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > I'm wondering if I can assign a container a specified name. I thought it
would be possible to set the container name in this code:
> >
> > Profile p = new ProfileImpl();
> > // Create a new non-main container, connecting to the default
> > // main container (i.e. on this host, port 1099)
> > //How can I set my container name?
> > AgentContainer ac = rt.createAgentContainer(p);
> >
> > Can I get the container under a specified name? Something like this:
> >
> > AgentContainer ac = rt.getAgentContainer("myname");
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Alexander Osherenko
> >
>
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