Agent Development Kit
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New release of Tryllian's Agent Development Kit just became available. This press release will provide you with more details while we prepare more material for a full review.
Tryllian introduces the latest release of the Agent Development Kit (ADK), a
mobile component-based development platform that allows you to build
reliable and scalable industrial strength applications. The ADK features
dynamic tasking, JXTA-based P2P architecture with XML message-based
communication that supports FIPA and SOAP, JNDI directory services, using a
reliable, lightweight runtime environment based on Java. These allow Java
Developers to easily build, deploy and manage secure, large-scale
distributed solutions that operate regardless of location, environment or
protocol, enabling an adaptive, dynamic response to changes.
Designed and built in 100% Java, XML, and JXTA with modular architecture and
a mobile component approach, the platform and associated development tools
enable you to develop applications that are:
Mobile, dynamically moving between systems, carrying code and data.
Autonomous, adaptive and proactive, carrying out tasks independently and
off-line.
Support advanced behavior and control, for complex behavior and
decision-making.
Support rich communication of diverse formats and advanced protocols.
This provides
Platform independence, fitting together heterogeneous environments.
Interoperability, within and between different environments, data and
processes. Agents can interact with other systems using FIPA, SOAP, JMS,
RMI, JDBC, and CORBA. Runtime environment can be automatically discovered
and can communicate across firewalls with the integration of JXTA in the
ADK.
Massive scalability, per platform and in the number of cooperating
platforms. Thread pooling allows execution of many thousands of agents
simultaneously. Moreover, inactive agents can be transparently swapped into
database storage.
Adaptability, allowing dynamic change of parts without affecting the
whole, supported by advanced version co-existence and version management
features.
High security, safeguarding corporate infrastructure, yet allowing access
across networks. Use of X.509 certificates and secure JXTA permit secure
transfer of data and secure execution of code within runtime environments.
Reliability through hot backup and recovery and snapshotting of agent
states. Management via SNMP.
On an application level, these characteristics allow you to easily build,
deploy and manage large-scale distributed solutions that operate regardless
of location, environment or protocol and which respond dynamically to
change.
The ADK runs on all operating systems featuring a Java Standard Edition 1.3
Runtime Environment. The ADK is available for commercial license or for free
evaluation to educational institutions under the research license program.
More detailed information, including fact sheets, white paper, and projects
using the ADK can be found on Tryllian's Web site.