swarm.objectbase
Interface Swarm

All Known Subinterfaces:

GUISwarm

All Known Implementing Classes:

SwarmImpl, GUISwarmImpl

public interface Swarm

extends SwarmProcess, SwarmProcessS

A temporal container.. A Swarm is a community of agents sharing a common timescale as well as common memory pool.

Method Summary

Activity	activateIn(Swarm swarmContext) Override this to activate any actions you built in buildActions.
java.lang.Object	buildActions() Override this to let your Swarm build its actions.
java.lang.Object	buildObjects() Override this to let your Swarm create the objects that it contains.
ProbeMap	getCompleteProbeMap() Needed to support probing of Swarms.
VarProbe	getProbeForVariable(java.lang.String aVariable) Needed to support probing of Swarms.
ProbeMap	getProbeMap() Needed to support probing of Swarms.

Methods inherited from interface swarm.activity.SwarmProcess

getActivity, getInternalZone

Methods inherited from interface swarm.defobj.Zone

allocIVars, allocIVarsComponent, copyIVars, copyIVarsComponent, describeForEach, describeForEachID, freeIVars, freeIVarsComponent, getComponentZone, getPageSize, getPopulation

Methods inherited from interface swarm.activity.SynchronizationType

getSynchronizationType

Methods inherited from interface swarm.defobj.Drop

drop

Methods inherited from interface swarm.defobj.DefinedObject

compare, describe, describeID, getDisplayName, getTypeName, getZone, perform, perform$with, perform$with$with, perform$with$with$with, respondsTo, setDisplayName, xfprint, xfprintid, xprint, xprintid

Methods inherited from interface swarm.defobj.GetName

getName

Method Detail

buildObjects

public java.lang.Object buildObjects()

Override this to let your Swarm create the objects that it contains.

buildActions

public java.lang.Object buildActions()

Override this to let your Swarm build its actions.

activateIn

public Activity activateIn(Swarm swarmContext)

Override this to activate any actions you built in buildActions. Note, you must activate yourself first before you can activate actions inside you.

getProbeMap

public ProbeMap getProbeMap()

Needed to support probing of Swarms.

getCompleteProbeMap

public ProbeMap getCompleteProbeMap()

Needed to support probing of Swarms.

getProbeForVariable

public VarProbe getProbeForVariable(java.lang.String aVariable)

Needed to support probing of Swarms.