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We introduce Jada, a programming toolkit for coordinating agents written in Java. Coordination among either concurrent threads or distributed Java objects is achieved via shared object spaces. By exchanging objects through object spaces, Java agents or applets can exchange data or synchronize their actions over the Internet, a LAN, a single host, or even inside a Java‐enabled browser. The access to an object space is performed using a set of methods of an ObjectSpace object. Such operations inspired by the Linda language are powerful enough to solve several coordination problems. Moreover, we show how Jada can be used as a coordination kernel for more complex coordination architectures.
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Ciancarini, P., Rossi, D. Coordinating Java agents over the WWW. World Wide Web 1, 87–99 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019255429322
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