Mobile Agents and Python (was Python Performance vs. C++ in a Complex System)
Boudewijn Rempt
boud at rempt.xs4all.nl
Sun Apr 22 16:48:25 EDT 2001
Alastair Burt <burt at dfki.de> wrote:
> boud at rempt.xs4all.nl (Boudewijn Rempt) writes:
>> This contrasts to an earlier approach, Gossip, which followed all
>> the textbook advice about giving one thread to each agent. For both
>> the toolkit and gossip (which is free, but closed source), see
>> http://www.tryllian.com.
> I see Gossip is a platform for building mobile agents in Java. I wondered
> if people have experience of programming mobile agents in Python. It seems
> with Gossip (or ObjectSpace's Voyager) you could program in Jython. Does
> anyone have any experience of this? How does it compare to programming
> with Pyro[1]?
Gossip is merely an application. There's now the ADK - the Agent
Development Toolkit (we're not very imaginative as regards names), but
it is indeed possible to use Jython to to develop agents. I've embedded
Jython in a management agent, for instance. It's quite easy.
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