Subject: Re: Announcement: released JADE2.4"The LEAP of little JADE into the wireless world"
From: Oliver Hoffmann (hoffmann@urbanagents.com)
Date: Wed Sep 26 2001 - 23:13:24 MET DST
Fabio,
there is one thing I don't understand (and I am sure you can explain):
LEAP is lightweight, lightweight means: less code, less footprint, less
disk space, less memory usage etc.
BUT: LEAP needs JADE, LEAP therefore is added to JADE
then how can it be more lightweight than JADE?
:) Oliver Hoffmann
At 10:27 AM 9/26/2001 +0200, Bellifemine Fabio wrote:
>Dear JADE users, we are pleased to announce the release of version 2.4
>of JADE, release that we named "The LEAP of little JADE into the
>wireless world".
>
>At a functional level, the most important feature given by this new
>release is the integration with the results of the EU IST-1999-10211
>LEAP project (http://leap.crm-paris.com). The synergy between the JADE
>platform and the LEAP libraries creates a FIPA-compliant agent platform
>with reduced footprint and compatibility with mobile Java environments
>down to J2ME-CLDC. The LEAP site provides instructions on how to
>integrate these libraries with the JADE platform. A single homogeneous
>view of the platform and set of API's is offered independently on the
>Java environment ultimately allowing ubiquitous deployment of agent
>services and applications. The JADE Team thanks the LEAP consortium for
>their patient, professional, and effective collaboration giving such a
>good result. One of the most challenging problem that had to be faced
>was the removal of the dependency on the Java Collection Framework
>(which is not available on J2ME run-time) while still preserving the
>legacy and the existing applications of JADE users. In order to do that,
>in this version we have deprecated a small number of JADE API's and
>introduced a jade.util.leap package, kindly provided by the LEAP
>consortium. J2SE users can of course continue to use the Java Collection
>Framework, but J2ME users have to import this new JADE package.
>
>Still at a functional level, it is worth to mention three more
>modifications:
>- David Bell, HP Labs, provided the code to allow JADE to use an
>already-running RMIRegistry without any need to create a new private
>registry
>- the constraint that only Strings could be passed as arguments to an
>Agent has been removed and it is now possible to pass an array of
>Object, including an object reference, which makes straightforward
>agent-to-object communication. In the next release, we intend also to
>give an effective solution for the other way around, i.e.
>object-to-agent communication
>- a new couple of classes jade.proto.AchieveREInitiator/Responder
>(Achieve Rational Effect) has been added that allows simple and
>compositional implementation of all the FIPA-request like interaction
>protocols that have been defined by FIPA, such as FIPA-request,
>FIPA-query, FIPA-propose, FIPA-proxy, ...
>
>Compliance to FIPA specifications has been further reinforced by fixing
>a mistake that was the result of an oversight: 3 constants had a plural
>name instead of a singular name, i.e. an extra "s" was added in the name
>of the slots "ontologies", "languages", "protocols".
>
>The JADE Team slightly increased, and we welcomed Federico Bergenti,
>from the University of Parma. His first major contribution is the new
>support for message content that has been also included in this version
>of JADE, as implemented by the package jade.content. It is still in an
>experimental phase but, in the long term, our intention is to replace
>the current message content support (jade.onto) with the new one. In the
>short term, we invite users to test and analyze it and provide us
>feedback.
>
>The community support is still strong and, thanks also to the help of
>the users, a number of bugs has been fixed and a number of examples has
>been added. The team has ideas to further improve this community support
>but, in this case, we prefer to be pushed by the community rather than
>drive and force some directions.
>
>As usual, a complete and detailed lists of all the changes can be found
>at http://jade.cselt.it/lastVersion/ChangeLog
>
>Regarding backward compatibility, your applications should not be
>impacted by this new release and no change should be needed apart from
>some new warnings because of those methods which have been now
>deprecated.
>JADE 2.4 containers cannot join to JADE 2.3 containers and viceversa,
>while inter-platform compatibility is guaranteed.
>
>Our short term plans include better integration with Web technology
>(e.g. JSP, Servlets, XML, ...) as well as security and multi-user
>support in JADE.
>
>JADE is distributed OPEN SOURCE by Telecom Italia (Telecom Italia S.p.A. changed the name
>of the company in March) 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.
>
>
> <<Fabio Bellifemine.vcf>>
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