fr.dyade.aaa.agent.AgentFactory Class Reference

Inherits fr.dyade.aaa.agent.Agent.

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Public Member Functions
void	react (AgentId from, Notification not) throws Exception
Protected Member Functions
String	getLogTopic ()
void	agentInitialize (boolean firstTime) throws Exception
Package Functions
	AgentFactory (AgentId factoryId)

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Detailed Description

Agent used to allow remote agent creation. Every agent server hosts a factory agent, they all use a predefined stamp identifier AgentId.factoryId. The factory must be able to create all types of objects, actually it is supposed that the corresponding classes can be reached.

The agent creation process involves the following steps

• locally creating the Agent object in memory ;
• serializing the agent state, building an AgentCreateRequest notification with the resulting string, sending it to the target Factory agent ;
• the factory agent building the object in memory from the serialized image, and saving it into operational storage ;
• the factory agent calling the initialize method.

The AgentDeleteRequest class of notification follows a similar process to remotely delete agents.

Definition at line 48 of file AgentFactory.java.

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Constructor & Destructor Documentation

fr.dyade.aaa.agent.AgentFactory.AgentFactory

(

AgentId

factoryId

)

[package]

Allocates a new AgentFactory agent. An AgentFactory agent must be created on every agent server the first time it runs.

Definition at line 58 of file AgentFactory.java.

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Member Function Documentation

String fr.dyade.aaa.agent.AgentFactory.getLogTopic

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)

[protected]

Returns log topic for factory agent.

Reimplemented from fr.dyade.aaa.agent.Agent.

Definition at line 67 of file AgentFactory.java.

void fr.dyade.aaa.agent.AgentFactory.agentInitialize

(

boolean

firstTime

)

throws Exception [protected]

Gives this agent an opportunity to initialize after having been deployed, and each time it is loaded into memory. Loads the list of agents with a fixed field set to true.

Parameters:

firstTime

true when first called by the factory

Exceptions:

Exception

unspecialized exception

Reimplemented from fr.dyade.aaa.agent.Agent.

Definition at line 81 of file AgentFactory.java.

void fr.dyade.aaa.agent.AgentFactory.react	(	AgentId	from,
		Notification	not
	)			throws Exception

Reacts to notifications ... .

Parameters:

	from	agent sending notification
	not	notification to react to

Exceptions:

Exception

unspecialized exception

Reimplemented from fr.dyade.aaa.agent.Agent.

Definition at line 93 of file AgentFactory.java.

References fr.dyade.aaa.agent.AgentCreateRequest.agentState, fr.dyade.aaa.agent.AgentCreateRequest.deploy, fr.dyade.aaa.agent.Notification.getContext(), fr.dyade.aaa.agent.Agent.getId(), fr.dyade.aaa.agent.Agent.id, fr.dyade.aaa.agent.Agent.logmon, fr.dyade.aaa.agent.Agent.name, fr.dyade.aaa.agent.AgentCreateRequest.reply, fr.dyade.aaa.agent.Agent.sendTo(), and fr.dyade.aaa.agent.Notification.setContext().

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• fr/dyade/aaa/agent/AgentFactory.java

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