Examples of de.tuclausthal.informatik.winf.mobileagents.agent.Agent

de.tuclausthal.informatik.winf.mobileagents.agent.Agent

The interface Agent provides the methods a mobile agent in this framework has to provide in order to be executed, transfered and managed by a utilizing application. An agent can be described as a state machine which implementation is in start();. Agents may send and receive messages to communicate with other agents and/or hosts. An agent has a reference to its execution environment, a so called container, which it may use to initiate actions, e.g. send a message or require the de.uniol.informatik.vlba.purplebee.transfer to another host. The agent does only interact with the container but not with any other component in the application or the network. @author dluebke @version 1.0.3 (2003-11-26) @see de.tuclausthal.informatik.winf.mobileagents.container.Container @since 1.0


      String agentClassName =
        agentManifest.getMainAttributes().getValue(
          Attributes.Name.MAIN_CLASS);
      Class agentClass = agentLoader.loadClass(agentClassName);
      Agent agent = (Agent) agentClass.newInstance();
      agentInfo.setAgent(agent);
    } else
    {
      // state supplied
      Agent agent = this.deseralizeAgent(data, agentLoader);
      agentInfo.setAgent(agent);
    }
  }

   * @param agent <code>Agent</code> to serialize
   * @return <code>null</code> if <code>Agent</code> could not be serialized, otherwise the serialized <code>Agent</code>
   */
  protected byte[] serializeAgent(Agent agent)
  {
    Agent temp = null;
    try
    {
      ByteArrayOutputStream outbyte = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); 
      ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream(outbyte);
      //out.useProtocolVersion(out.PROTOCOL_VERSION_2);

   * @param classloader <code>ClassLoader</code> to use
   * @return instance of the <code>Agent</code>
   */
  protected Agent deseralizeAgent(byte[] data, ClassLoader classloader)
  {
    Agent retval = null;
    try
    {
      ObjectInputStream in = new ClassLoaderObjectInputStream(this.getClass().getClassLoader(), new ByteArrayInputStream(data));
      //ObjectInputStream in = new ClassLoaderObjectInputStream(classloader, new ByteArrayInputStream(data));
//      byte c;

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