agentland.debug.launcher
Interface Launcher

All Superinterfaces:

Agent, Remote

All Known Implementing Classes:

LauncherAgent

public interface Launcher

extends Agent

Fields inherited from interface metaglue.Agent

ALIVE, DIED, NO_METAGLUE, NOT_RUNNING, STARTING

Method Summary

void	addLaunchableAgent(String spoken_text, AgentID agentid)
void	addLaunchableAgent(String spoken_text, String agentid)
String	fire_up_text(String agent_to_be_run) fire_up starts agents
String	fire_up(AgentID agent_to_be_run)
Vector	launchableAgents() launchableAgents returns a listing of agents the launcher knows about.
String	query_text(String agent_to_be_queried) query checks an agent for existence
String	query(AgentID agent_to_be_queried)
void	removeLaunchableAgent(String text)
String	whois(String agentname)

Methods inherited from interface metaglue.Agent

addMonitor, alive, getAgentID, getMetaglueAgentID, shutdown, startup, whereAreYou

Method Detail

fire_up_text

public String fire_up_text(String agent_to_be_run)
                    throws RemoteException

fire_up starts agents

fire_up

public String fire_up(AgentID agent_to_be_run)
               throws RemoteException

query_text

public String query_text(String agent_to_be_queried)
                  throws RemoteException

query checks an agent for existence

query

public String query(AgentID agent_to_be_queried)
             throws RemoteException

launchableAgents

public Vector launchableAgents()
                        throws RemoteException

launchableAgents returns a listing of agents the launcher knows about. this is useful for show the user what they can and cannot launch

whois

public String whois(String agentname)
             throws RemoteException

removeLaunchableAgent

public void removeLaunchableAgent(String text)
                           throws RemoteException

addLaunchableAgent

public void addLaunchableAgent(String spoken_text,
                               String agentid)
                        throws RemoteException

addLaunchableAgent

public void addLaunchableAgent(String spoken_text,
                               AgentID agentid)
                        throws RemoteException