Concordia Developer's Guide

• Table of Contents

• Introduction


Agent Mobility Overview

• Agent Development

A Database Query Application
A Database Query Agent
Agents and the Serializable Interface
Compiling the Agent
Starting the Concordia Server
Concordia Logging
Launching the Agent

The Agent Launch Wizard
The Agent Launch Command Line Tool
The Agent Launch API

• Collaboration

Collaborator Agents
A Collaborating Database Agent
Agent Groups
An Agent Group for Collaborative Database Access
Reliable Collaboration

Agent Group Proxies
A Collaborating Database Agent Using a Proxy
Other Features

• Distributed Events

Event Notification for Mobile Agents

Mobile Agents and Selected Events
A Database Access Agent that Uses Events

Event Notification for Non-Mobile Objects

Non-Mobile Objects and Selected Events
A Database Query Application that Uses Events

Generalized Events
Security Checks

Group-Oriented Events

Boss Database Access Agent
Collaborating Database Access Agent

Comparison of Event Paradigms

• Service Bridges

Service Bridge Example
Service Bridge Installation
Advantages of the Service Bridge
The Directory Manager
Service Bridge Management API

• Agent Transporter

Agent Transporter Example Usages
Creating an AgentTransporter in an Application
Creating an AgentTransporter in an Applet
The Agent Listener Model
Specifying an Agent Transporter in agent itineraries