I'm new to JADE and am having a bit of trouble loading agents.
I created a new IntelliJ project and added "jade.jar" and "commons-codec-1.3.jar" (I'm using JADE 4.1.1) in "Dependencies" and ticked the export boxes (I've also tried without them ticked). I then added the "HelloWorldAgent.java" that comes in the examples to the src. I set up the run configurations as:
When I run using this configuration the JADE guy does start but it does not find the "HelloWorldAgent". The output is:
14-Feb-2012 21:43:08 jade.core.Runtime beginContainer
INFO: ----------------------------------
This is JADE 4.1.1 - revision 6532 of 2011/11/18 16:21:34
downloaded in Open Source, under LGPL restrictions,
at http://jade.tilab.com/
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Retrieving CommandDispatcher for platform null
14-Feb-2012 21:43:08 jade.imtp.leap.LEAPIMTPManager initialize
INFO: Listening for intra-platform commands on address:
- jicp://192.168.1.66:1099
14-Feb-2012 21:43:08 jade.core.BaseService init
INFO: Service jade.core.management.AgentManagement initialized
14-Feb-2012 21:43:08 jade.core.BaseService init
INFO: Service jade.core.messaging.Messaging initialized
14-Feb-2012 21:43:08 jade.core.BaseService init
INFO: Service jade.core.resource.ResourceManagement initialized
14-Feb-2012 21:43:08 jade.core.BaseService init
INFO: Service jade.core.mobility.AgentMobility initialized
14-Feb-2012 21:43:08 jade.core.BaseService init
INFO: Service jade.core.event.Notification initialized
14-Feb-2012 21:43:08 jade.mtp.http.HTTPServer <init>
INFO: HTTP-MTP Using XML parser com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser
14-Feb-2012 21:43:08 jade.core.messaging.MessagingService boot
INFO: MTP addresses: http://unknown-00-19-c5-7e-cb-4b.home:7778/acc
14-Feb-2012 21:43:08 jade.core.AgentContainerImpl startBootstrapAgents
SEVERE: Cannot create agent testAgent: Class HelloWorldAgent for agent ( agent-identifier :name testAgent@192.168.1.66:1099/JADE ) not found [nested java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: HelloWorldAgent]
14-Feb-2012 21:43:08 jade.core.AgentContainerImpl joinPlatform
INFO: --------------------------------------
Agent container Main-Container@192.168.1.66 is ready.
The key problem clearly being:
SEVERE: Cannot create agent testAgent: Class HelloWorldAgent for agent ( agent-identifier :name testAgent@192.168.1.66:1099/JADE ) not found [nested java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: HelloWorldAgent]
I've tried using eclipse but I get the same problem, I also tried using a earlier version of JADE but again, no luck. Any help would be much appreciated.
Many Thanks
Dan
It seems that the location I put the "jade.jar" and "commons-codec-1.3.jar" was the problem (I originally put them in /Library/Java/Extensions (in OSX lion)). I tried removing them, putting them somewhere else and tried again and now it works. Not entirely sure why mind!