Intelligent Agents using Jade framework - artificial-intelligence

Question

I want to develop a multi-agent system and I want to run different agents from different containers. I'm using eclipse with Jade framework for this and i have no idea how to configure the "run configuration" for the project in order to accomplish this. So far I have this: -gui -container main:Sender;a1:Receiver;a2:Pong and I want to put agents a1 and a2 in a separate container. Please help.

Answer 1

When starting a new jade project I usually create a Coordinator agent with the methods to launch and destroy other agents. I think this is good practice as you can extend these methods to other agents if need be.

Answer 2

I hope that this will help.
First Run the Agent jade graphical user interface (Ejade) (By Installing the Ejade Library)
or you can run it on the console:
C:\java jade.Boot -gui (You have to fix the system variable path to "C:\..\jade.far" and create a variable name classpath = "C:\..\jdk7\")
Run the code that allows you to create a new container to deploy on it your agents.
import jade.core.ProfileImpl;
import jade.core.Runtime;
import jade.domain.ams;
import jade.wrapper.AgentContainer;
import jade.wrapper.AgentController;
public class ContainerDeploy {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try{
Runtime runtime=Runtime.instance();
ProfileImpl profileImpl = new ProfileImpl(false);
profileImpl.setParameter(ProfileImpl.MAIN_HOST, "localhost");
AgentContainer agentContainer=runtime.createAgentContainer(profileImpl);
AgentController agentcontroller1 = agentContainer.createNewAgent("Name of Agent", "com.package.AgentClass", new Object[]{});
agentController1.start();
}catch(Exception e) {
System.out.println("Runtime Error\t");
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}