The Open Agent Architecture^TM 1.0 Distribution

Status: Unsupported Partial Release

About this distribution

This distribution is intended for developers who need to work with OAA 1.0 in order to support some existing system, or reuse existing agents based on OAA 1. Others should work with OAA 2.x. Please note that OAA 1.0 is not thoroughly documented and not well supported.

For those who need to reuse an OAA 1.0 agent, note that it is possible to use a mix of OAA 1.0 and OAA 2.x agents with the OAA 2.0 facilitator.

This OAA 1.0 distribution is released to the public under a non-exclusive end-user software license agreement.

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Release Notes

• November 15, 1999: Added OAA 1.0 library for Perl, along with simple test agent and basic documentation.

• July 18, 1999: Updated Runtime Distribution: several bugs fixed in Java library (oaa.jar), improvements made (both functional and bug-fixes) to Start-It and Monitor tools. Added new WebL script for Yahoo weather, because Intellicast weather changed their site.

• February 3, 1999: Documentation for the Java library of OAA 1.0 (javadoc).

• January 8, 1999: New version of the Lisp library, which includes alpha-level support for Allegro/NT.

• November 20, 1998: First release. Distribution for UNIX and PC, includes Runtime Distribution (Facilitator; Tools: Monitor, Start-It, Debug; WebL and DCG-NL oriented sample application). Agent libraries for many languages, with sample agent. See the new Tutorial (still a little rough...).