Create multiple agents with Java JADE

Question

I am kind of new with JADE platform in eclipse. I want to create multiple agents, I have put a for loop and incremented the counter to create the agents, It used to work well but when I added the ThiefAgent, it didn't work. It only creates one PoliceAgent and one ThiefAgent. The code works perfectly but it does not create many agents.

this is the main.java code:

 public class Main {

   public static void main(String[] args) {

    /*********************************************************************/
    Runtime rt=Runtime.instance();
    ProfileImpl p=new ProfileImpl();
    p.setParameter(Profile.MAIN_HOST, "localhost");
    p.setParameter(Profile.GUI, "true");


    ContainerController cc1=rt.createMainContainer(p);


    /**************creation of 5 police agents*****************/

    for(int i=1; i<6; i++)
    {

       AgentController ac1;
    try {



        ac1=cc1.createNewAgent("PoliceAgent"+i, "Agents.PoliceAgent", null);


        ac1.start();    

    } catch (StaleProxyException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    }



         /**************creation of 3 thief agents*****************/

        for(int j=1; j<4; j++)
        {

       AgentController ac2;
    try {


        ac2=cc1.createNewAgent("ThiefAgent"+j, "Agents.ThiefAgent",    null);


        ac2.start();    

    } catch (StaleProxyException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
     }
     }

        }
      }

I tried to put one For loop for both agents but nothing changed. What's the mistake? Thanks in advance.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 12 '17 at 13:14

Create PoliceAgent class:

public class PoliceAgent extends Agent{
    @Override
    public void setup()
    {
        System.out.println("Police agent name is: " +getAID().getName());
    }
}

Create ThiefAgent class:

public class ThiefAgent extends Agent{
    @Override
    public void setup()
    {
        System.out.println("Thief agent name is: " +getAID().getName());
    }
}

Create AgentWorker main class:

public class PoliceAgent{

   public static void main(String... args){
       Runtime runtime = Runtime.instance();
       Profile profile = new ProfileImpl();
       profile.setParameter(Profile.MAIN_HOST, "localhost");
       profile.setParameter(Profile.GUI, "true");
       ContainerController containerController = runtime.createMainContainer(profile);

       for(int i=1; i<6; i++){
           AgentController policeAgentController;
           try {
               policeAgentController = containerController.createNewAgent("PoliceAgent"+i, "ua.agent.PoliceAgent", null);
               policeAgentController.start();    
           } catch (StaleProxyException e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
           }
       }

       for(int i=1; i<4; i++){
           AgentController thiefAgentController;
           try {
               thiefAgentController = containerController.createNewAgent("ThiefAgent"+i, "ua.agent.ThiefAgent", null);
               thiefAgentController.start();    
           } catch (StaleProxyException e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
           }
        }
   }

}

I don't see mistakes in this code, but i write 3 classes an they work. Since I don't see the whole picture, so I can only say that the problem could be in the class of agents and the problem of Jade.

Create multiple agents with Java JADE

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