| 02.07.2009 JADE 3.7 and WADE 2.5 have been released. The major improvements in JADE 3.7 are the integration with the OSGi technology and the new WSDC (Web Service Dynamic Client) add-on for dynamic web service invocation. The former allows executing JADE agents into an OSGi environment, packaging agents code into separate bundles, updating it by means of the bundle update mechanism and giving agents access to all typical OSGi features such as registering and using OSGi services. The latter allows invoking web service without any code generation step. The major improvements in WADE 2.5 are the visualization of decision blocks according to the BPMN notation, the support for attaching comments to activities and conditions and editing them directly in the workflow view and a number of improvements in web service invocation support 11.06.2009 A Tutorial on WADE will be held the 8th of July in Parma (Italy) within the scope of WOA 2009 (Workshop on Objects and Agents). 10.02.2009 WOLF 2.0.1 has been released together with a complete tutorial that guides the reader through all the steps necessary to develop an application where the main agent tasks are defined in from of workflows. |