Re: [Swarm-Support] JAS-1.1 vs Java-SWARM-2.2

[Alex Lancaster]

>>>>> "PJ" == Paul Johnson  writes:

PJ> ?  Swarm-2.2 is an Objective C library and a Java Native Interface
PJ> through which programs written in Java can access the Swarm
PJ> Libraries.  Swarm was the first of these so-called agent-based
PJ> modeling frameworks and there are many applications that use it.

PJ> JAS is a native Java approach that combines the best of breed free
PJ> Java components (such as Colt) with some other components that are
PJ> Swarm-like in nature.  Its web page says it is a Swarm Clone.  JAS
PJ> is a new-ish project being developed by researchers at the
PJ> University of Torino, Italy, mainly the developer is Michele
PJ> Sonnessa.

Is JAS open source?  What license is it?  Is it a GPL or
GPL-compatible license (like BSD)?  

That is (or should be) a big factor in the choice of any ABM
(agent-based modelling) toolkit, because the nature of ABM is that
there are times when you need to know exactly how something is
implemented in the toolkit and should not necessarily assume the
toolkit is a black box that is 100% correct.

Both Swarm and RePast have that in common: Swarm is GPL, RePast is
BSD, so code can be (in theory) combined from both projects.

Alex