Description of the examples
Some examples are distributed with
the JADE software, that show how to use the main features of the framework
and some suggested programming idioms.
All the examples are distributed both in binary and source form.
The 'examples' target of the ant file 'build.xml' in the JADE root directory allows re-compiling them.
To do that just type 'ant examples'.
NOTE: The build.xml file is included in the Jade sources distribution.
In order to run the examples, set the CLASSPATH environment variable to contain the files
jade.jar, jadeExamples.jar and commons-codec/commons-codec-1.3.jar.
All example agent classes belong to subpackages of the 'examples'
package, refer to the various example agents with a fully qualified package
name; for example, class ComplexBehaviourAgent in 'behaviours' subdirectory
of 'examples' directory must be started via the following command line:
java jade.Boot
-gui agent1:examples.behaviours.ComplexBehaviourAgent
The following is the list of all the example programs
distributed in the 'src/examples' directory.
Basic features.
- Hello World: Shows a minimal agent printing "Hello World!"
and then terminating.
- Behaviours: Includes examples showing the usage of simple
and composite behaviours.
- Messaging: Includes examples showing how to make JADE agents
communicate.
- Yellow Pages: Includes examples showing how to use the Yellow
Pages service provided by the DF agent.
- Topic-based
communication : Includes examples showing how to use the topic-based
message delivery mechanism introduced with release 3.5.
- Book Trading, Shows a very simple multi agent system for trading
books online.
Advanced features.
- Protocols, Includes examples showing the usage of the support
provided by JADE for interaction protocols.
- Ontology, this example shows how to use the support for
application specific ontologies.
- In Process,
this example shows the usage of the jade.wrapper package to start a JADE runtime
and control a number of agents from an external application.
- Base 64,
this example shows how to encode serialized Java objects into the content
of an ACLMessage; it also shows how to force the platform to use bit-efficient
and/or XML ACLCodec.
- Mobile, this is an example of a mobile agent.
Using JADE with other technologies.
- JSP, this is an example of integration of JADE and
JSP kindly provided by Daniel Le Berre. Look at the tutorial in the documentation.
- Jess, is a sample agent that allows the programmer
to avoid writing any line of Java code and implement everything in CLIPS by
using JESS.
- JadeJessProtege, this package includes examples for a closer integration
of JADE with JESS, optionally also with protege.
Simple applications.
- ThanksAgent, this example shows an agent that creates some
other agents and has a simple conversation with them
- Party, this is an
example of a simple multi-agent application where an host sets a party and
invite a number of guests
- MeetingScheduler,
this is a simple demo of a MeetingScheduler multi-agent system
- The Agentcities PingAgent, this directory contains a simple Ping Agent.
JADE
is a trademark of TILAB (formerly CSELT).
JADE has been developed jointly by TILAB
(formerly CSELT)
and the Computer
Engineering Group of the University
of Parma