WADE

WADE (Workflows and Agents Development Environment) is a domain independent platform built on top of JADE that gives JADE agents the ability to execute tasks defined according to the workflow metaphor.

WADE is developed within the Innovation department of Telecom Italia

WOLF

WOLF (WOrkflow LiFe cycle management environment) is an Eclipse plug in that facilitates the development of WADE based applications providing a workflow graphical editor and a number of mechanisms to support programmers in the development and testing phases

JADE

JADE (Java Agent DEvelopment Framework) is a software framework to develop agent-based applications in compliance with the FIPA specifications for interoperable intelligent multi-agent systems. The goal is to simplify the development while ensuring standard compliance through a comprehensive set of system services and agents.
JADE can then be considered an agent middleware that implements an Agent Platform and a development framework. It deals with all those aspects that are not peculiar of the agent internals and that are independent of the applications, such as message transport, encoding and parsing, or agent life-cycle.

Telecom Italia Lab

Telecom Italia Lab is the R&D branch of the Telecom Italia Group and is responsible for promoting technological innovation by scouting new technologies, carrying out and assessing feasibility studies, and developing prototypes and emulators of new services and products.
Both JADE and WADE were conceived and mainly developed within Telecom Italia Lab.

The WADE license and the Open Source Community

"Open source does not just mean access to the source code" - O’Reilly
WADE is Open Source Software since May 2008 (version 1.0) and it is released under the LGPL license.
The LGPL license keeps all contributors to the same level relative to each other and it respects and protects both the users and the authors. In the following you can have a fast and rough idea of rights and duties of this license but, please, refer to the official LICENSE file for more details and legally precise information.
In particular LGPL assures right to:


• make and distribute copies of WADE

• have access to the software source code

• make improvements to the program

• incorporate WADE into a proprietary program

• continue the WADE experience even if we stopped it !! (which will not happen, because we will not stop JADE so easily)