| Agents and plugins semantic [message #76092] |
Mon, 03 July 2006 08:37  |
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Originally posted by: RGuschin.computel.ru
Agent Controller has agents and has plugins. What are their difference
and purpose of such architecture?
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| Re: Agents and plugins semantic [message #76178 is a reply to message #76131] |
Tue, 04 July 2006 07:23  |
| Eclipse User |
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Originally posted by: RGuschin.computel.ru
Thanks :)
Randy D. Smith wrote:
> Rodion Guschin wrote:
>> Agent Controller has agents and has plugins. What are their difference
>> and purpose of such architecture?
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> The "plugins" are really a misnomer. It's a hold-out from the RAC days
> where they perpetuated the NAME plugins from Eclipse for a slightly
> different idea. The AC from the start wanted to deal with "agents", and
> thus the agents directory has entries for all the agents it should know
> about, and each agent has an agent.xml file configuring it.
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> When 4.2 was coming along and it became clear that we couldn't just
> "switch" from the RAC to the AC, but instead had to provide backward
> compatibility (BC) in the AC so as to run legacy agents, we had to keep
> this nomenclature.
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> So, in general, agents that are new and wish to deal with the "new tech
> AC" and its API only should probably go the agent route. Existing agents
> will (hopefully) migrate from the plugins area to the agents directory.
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> Sorry for the confusion... it confused all of us as well as we got into
> TPTP.
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