OAA 1.0 Documentation

Warning! Although some of this documentation is incomplete or out of date, current work is focusing on OAA 2.0 and it's documentation, so this will probably stay somewhat out of date...

OAA Documentation

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
OAA 1.0 Tutorial
OAA 1 Developer's Guide
Agent Development Tools User Manual
OAA Reference Manual -- Delphi edition
OAA Reference Manual -- Java edition
OAA 1 Lisp Library Overview and Developer's Notes
OAA-Users mailing list archive
OAA Agent Documentation
OAA Presentation

OAA Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

The FAQ contains general questions and answers about the Open Agent Architecture, including a section on Troubleshooting. The FAQ is available only in HTML form.

OAA 1.0 Tutorial

The OAA 1.0 Tutorial is a brief, step-by-step guide for new developers for running an OAA system and adding a new agent. The tutorial is currently available only in HTML form.

OAA 1.0 Developer's Guide

This developer's guide contains information on:

Overview of the OAA
Agent Infrastructure
Requesting and providing services using the Interagent Communication Language (ICL)
Create OAA Agents
OAA Agent Library Library primitives
Triggers
Data Management
Running an agent application using Start-It

This documentation can be accessed in HTML form, PostScript, and in Japanese (HTML). For the Japanese version, in Netscape, set Language Encoding option to "Japanese (Autoselect)"

Agent Development Tools (ADT) Users's Guide

This user's manual describes in detail how to use the ADT to create new OAA agents and projects. Unfortunately, ADT cannot be made available for use outside SRI. But it is documented here, and in a journal paper (Agent development tools for the open agent architecture), for those who may be interested in its concepts.

This documentation can be accessed in HTML form, or in PostScript.

OAA Reference Manual -- Delphi version

This manual gives reference pages on all of OAA's built-in primitives supplied by the Agent Library. This version of the reference manual is specifically for the Delphi Programming language, but it should be fairly useful for other languages as well. This documentation can be accessed in HTML form.

OAA Reference Manual -- Java version

This manual gives reference pages on all of OAA's built-in primitives supplied by the Agent Library. This version of the reference manual is specifically for the Java Programming language, but it should be fairly useful for other languages as well. (Generated using javadoc) This documentation can be accessed in HTML form.

OAA-USERS mailing list archive

Discussions among OAA users are archived here. You may access the archive:

OAA 1 Lisp Library Overview and Developer's Notes

This documentation can be accessed in HTML form.

OAA Agent Documentation

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