Bridging Agent Theory and Ob ject Orientation: Agent-like Communication among Ob jects
4411, Seite 149-164. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, (2007)DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-71956-4_9
Zusammenfassung
This paper begins with the comparison of the message- sending mechanism, for communication among agents, and the method-invocation mechanism, for communication among objects. Then, we describe an extension of the method-invocation mechanism by introducing the notion of ``sender'' of a message, ``state'' of the interaction and ``protocol'' using the notion of ``role'', as it has been introduced in the powerJava extension of Java. The use of roles in communication is shown by means of an example of protocol.