[Agentfactory-developer] Proposed Change to Agent class hierarchy

[Rem C. <rem...@uc...>]

Hi all,

I want to propose a change to the current Agent class hierarchy, which 
is something like this:

com.agentfactory.platform.interfaces.Agent
    |--- com.agentfactory.plugins.interpreters.afapl.AFAPLAgent
    |--- com.agentfactory.plugins.interpreters.alpha.AFAPLAgent
    |--- com.agentfactory.plugins.interpreters.afapl2.AFAPLAgent

The proposed revision will see the following class hierarchy:

com.agentfactory.platform.interfaces.Agent
    |--- com.agentfactory.platform.interfaces.MentalAgent
              |--- com.agentfactory.plugins.interpreters.afapl.AFAPLAgent
              |--- com.agentfactory.plugins.interpreters.alpha.AFAPLAgent
              |--- com.agentfactory.plugins.interpreters.afapl2.AFAPLAgent

The new abstract class MentalAgent will include various abstract methods 
from the Agent class that are specific to Mental Agents (e.g. 
addActuatorBeliefs(), query(), queryAll()).

My motivation for changing the class structure is that I have been 
playing with implementing a behaviour-based agent architecture, and it 
seems silly to be defining methods such as these for this implementation.

Does anyone object to this?

Rem