Does JADE include graphical tools?
The JADE distribution includesa set of graphical tools to support the debugging and platform administration phase: – Remote Monitoring Agent (RMA), a tool to monitor and administer the status of all the components of the distributed platform, including agents and containers. The life-cycle of agents can also be controlled by the RMA as well as the connection with remote platforms and the installation of Message Transport Protocols. The RMA is therefore a kind of console of the system and it provides buttons to launch all the other graphical tools. – Sniffer Agent, a tool to sniff message exchange between agents. This tool is useful to debug a conversation between agents. It allows also to save the conversation to a file and load from a file. – Introspector Agent, a tool to debug a specific agent. This tool allows to introspect the message queues (incoming and outgoing messages) and the agent tasks (the behavior according to the JADE abstraction). The tool allows also to control the exe
