fjåge Developer’s Guide

Table of Contents

• Introduction
  • Why fjåge?
  • Java and Groovy support
  • Key concepts
  • License
  • Availability
• Getting Started
  • Quick start
  • Hello world agent
  • Packaging agents
  • Typical bootup for Groovy applications
  • Bootup for Java applications
• Agents and Behaviors
  • Agent lifecycle
  • One-shot behavior
  • Cyclic behavior
  • Waker behavior
  • Ticker behavior
  • Backoff behavior
  • Poisson behavior
  • Message behavior
  • Finite state machine behavior
  • Test behavior
  • Custom behaviors
• Messaging
  • Sending and receiving messages
  • Generic messages
  • Alternate syntax
  • Publishing and subscribing
  • Cloning messages
• Directory Services
  • Advertising services
  • Looking up service providers
  • Caching service providers
• Distributed Agents
  • Master and slave containers
  • Remote console
  • Interacting with agents using a Gateway
• The Shell Agent
  • Shell commands
  • Remote shell over TCP/IP
  • GUI shell using Java Swing
  • Web-based shell
  • Shell extensions
• Parameters
  • Simple parameters
  • Dynamic parameters
  • Metadata paramters
  • Indexed parameters
• Simulation
  • Discrete Event Simulation
• Python Gateway
  • Introduction
  • Import message classes
  • Open a connection
  • Send and receive messages
  • Generic messages
  • Publish and subscribe
  • Close a connection:
• C Gateway
  • Introduction
  • Open a connection
  • Send and receive messages
  • Close a connection:
  • Simple example
  • API documentation
• Javascipt Gateway
  • Introduction
  • Enable the web sockets connector
  • Use the Javascript module
• JSON Protocol Specifications
  • Transport and framing
  • JSON object format
  • Examples
• Frequently Asked Questions
  • Groovy syntax
  • Logging
  • Precompiled scripts

Useful Links

• fjåge GitHub home
• fjåge API documentation
• fjåge issue tracking