Package brahms.communication

Interface Summary

IEnvelopeProperties	IEnvelopeProperties is an interface defining the names of required or commonly used and supported properties to define the contents of an envelope.
IMessageHandler	IMessageHandler is a generic interface for processing messages.
IPayloadProperties	IPayloadProperties is an interface defining the names of required or commonly used and supported properties to define the contents of a payload.
IReplyHandler	IReplyHandler is the interface to be implemented for a component to receive notifications of any replies received by an agent to a CommunicativeAct for which the agent registered the reply handler.

Class Summary

AbstractCommunicationAgent	The AbstractCommunicationAgent is a base class for external agents that communicate with other agents solely using CommunicativeActs.
CommunicationLibrary	CommunicationLibrary is a helper class to clean up the library when a VM is restarted.
CommunicativeAct	An internal representation of a Brahms CommunicativeAct object about which a ComAgent can receive beliefs.
CommunicativeActBeliefOrganizer	The CommunicativeActBeliefOrganizer organizes the beliefs of a communicative act such that the belief about 'envelope("sender")' is the last belief in the list.
CommunicativeActFactory	CommunicativeActFactory is a factory providing methods to create new CommunicativeActs.
CreateCommunicativeActActivity	The CreateCommunicativeActActivity creates a new CommunicativeAct object with the specified sender, receiver, subject, action, performative and replyTo agent.
GetCommunicativeActProperty	The GetCommunicativeActProperty activity allows a model builder to retrieve the value of a property in the belief set of a communicative act by passing an unbound variable and having it be assigned the value of the property in the envelope map or payload map of the communicative act.
GetEnvelopePropertyActivity	The GetCommunicativeActProperty activity allows a model builder to retrieve the value of a property in the belief set of a communicative act by passing an unbound variable and having it be assigned the value of the property in the envelope map of the communicative act.
GetPayloadPropertyActivity	The GetCommunicativeActProperty activity allows a model builder to retrieve the value of a property in the belief set of a communicative act by passing an unbound variable and having it be assigned the value of the property in the payload map of the communicative act.
RetractCommunicativeActActivity	The RetractCommunicativeActActivity activity allows a model builder to remove all beliefs about a communicative act from the agent's belief set.
SendCommunicativeActActivity	The SendCommunicativeActActivity activity allows a model builder to send all beliefs stored in a CommunicativeAct's belief set to another agent.
SetCommunicativeActProperty	The SetCommunicativeActProperty activity allows a model builder to set a belief in a communicative act's envelope map or payload map.
SetEnvelopePropertyActivity	The SetEnvelopePropertyActivity activity allows a model builder to set a belief in a communicative act's envelope map.
SetPayloadPropertyActivity	The SetPayloadPropertyActivity activity allows a model builder to set a belief in a communicative act's payload map.

Enum Summary

CommunicativeAct.MAP	Constant identifiers for the communicative act's 'content' and 'payload' and payload map attributes
Performative	The types of performatives supported for a communicative act identifying the type of message.
RunState	The possible RunStates of a communication agent.