Re: [Swarm-Support] Help: SWARM platform

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Bdellal wrote:
> How can i program this (communication between two agents) with swarm 
> platform in java language.
With Swarm, if you want an Actor model, first you'd probably want to 
have several independent simulations and then have them communicate.  
These simulations could implement sends and receives through XML-RPC, or 
MPI, or similar.   You might look at 
http://gtelegin.googlepages.com/swarm for ideas.
> I would like to contror and monitor the communication between agents. 
> How can i do this with SWARM.
One way to do this is by using the GDB debugger.   You can set a break 
point on -performCall in FCall.m and then print out the method name and 
then resume execution from a breakpoint command.  Any scheduled call 
Swarm makes to Java will come through that method.   There aren't inline 
debugging hooks in the main execution paths of Swarm, but if you have 
the Swarm source code, you can monitor all messages from the debugger.  
Fundamentally, Swarm is a message oriented simulator.

Marcus