[Aglets-developer] How can the incoming agents communicate to the ManagerAgent ..?

[Anil K. <akr...@ya...>]

Hi Luca,

I am just browsing through the "aglets-developer
(read-only)" posts and replies  on source forge.net.

I find one of your reply (solution)  post to
Mr.PhaniIndhra's  request , interesting and  looks
like it is related to my work. For your easiness i
attached the post  following to this mail.

I have a question on your solution to Mr.PhaniIndhra.

In your solution you asked to "exploit an agent
(called MangerAgent) as interface to the running
tasks, thus incoming agents asks for running tasks to
it and and communicate to it when tasks are finished."

But how can the in coming agent send a message to the
ManagerAgent..?  Incoming agent does not know the
proxy on which the Manager is running  so it can not
send the message to the Manager agent. How can we
solve this ..?

Do you have a mechanism that will tell all the
incoming agents about the proxy  that the ManagerAgent
is running. 

Appreciate your help on this.

Thanks
Anil


--- Luca Ferrari 
wrote:

> Phani Indhra's cat, on 11/10/2005 6.47, walking on
> the keyboard wrote:
> > Once the first aglet comes in i create a file 
> with the name "TASKIDS.txt " , if it is not already
> created.And write the task ID to it in a line and
> proceed doing the work for the task .
> > If  "TASKIDS.txt "  is already created i read each
> line in the file and  compare it with the taskdID of
> the just arrived aglet. ( Note : Comparision is  
> for as there can be multiple disict TaskIDs in this
> file  at a time ) . If taskID does not exist proceed
> further with  work .If it exists , 
> > the aglet gets disposed();
> >  
> 
> This is a possible solution, but I suggest you to
> use a manager agent on 
> each system. In other words, exploit an agent as
> interface to the 
> running tasks, thus incoming agents asks for running
> tasks to it and 
> communicate to it when tasks are finished. In this
> way, you can keep the 
> table in memory or, in future release, can use other
> storing systems 
> (DBMS) without requiring any changes to the task
> agents.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Luca
> 



	
		
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