Subject: [jade-develop] Announcement: released JADE 3.0b1
From: Caire Giovanni (Giovanni.Caire@TILAB.COM)
Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 - 19:33:48 MET
Dear JADE users, we are pleased to announce the release of version 3.0b1 of JADE that we named "Paving the way for wireless agent systems".
This version of JADE was named after the wireless world as we did succeed in re-integrating the results of the LEAP project (that last year ported JADE on J2ME devices and wireless networks) into the JADE mainstream activity: all the very high-quality software produced by the LEAP partners (including TILAB, of course) is in fact now managed by the JADE team and distributed as an add-on via the JADE Web site. This re-harmonization and possible not-yet-discovered issues are the reasons for the 'b1', i.e. beta 1, in the release number.
JADE is also now at version 3.x and, as the new major release number anticipates, unfortunately, some APIs changed; luckily enough, those changes should not have a significant impact on your existing code. On the other hand, most of these changes were absolutely needed in order to comply with the new set of standards approved by FIPA last December.
A tutorial has been written and an add-on released (called jade2xback) that help programmers to upgrade their code to JADE 3.x.
Further to the integration of LEAP and the compliance to the new FIPA standards, the ChangeLog file on the web site reports the full list of changes and improvements in respect to the previous version of JADE.
We intend to make 2003 a significant year for the JADE project and for the JADE Open Source Community. Important announcements and press releases will soon be made with new initiatives aiming at improving the recognition and the involvement of the entire Open Source Community and at further strengthening the JADE software and project.
JADE is distributed OPEN SOURCE by TILAB (formerly CSELT S.p.A.) under
the terms of the LGPL Version 2 License and it can be downloaded at
http://jade.cselt.it/ JADE (Java Agent Development Framework) is a
software framework that simplifies the implementation of multi-agent
systems through a middle-ware that complies with the FIPA specifications
and through a set of tools that support the debugging and deployment
phases. JADE has successfully participated at the FIPA interoperability
tests held in Seoul on January 1999 and in London on April 2001, and it
has been extensively used within a number of European projects. It is
completely implemented in Java language and the minimal software
requirement is the version 1.2 of Java.
Apologies for any duplicate emails received.
Sincerely, the JADE Team.
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Giovanni Caire
Telecom Italia Lab
Multimedia Products - Advanced Application Development
Via G. Reiss Romoli, 274
10148 Turin, Italy
Ph: +39 011 228 6107
Fax: +39 011 228 6299
giovanni.caire@tilab.com
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