The moses API presented here covers the classes necessary to the programmer in the process of developing laws and programmed actors that interact through LGI.

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Description

Packages

moses.controller
moses.controlState
moses.member
moses.message
moses.security

The moses API presented here covers the classes necessary to the programmer in the process of developing laws and programmed actors that interact through LGI. The moses package distribution contains substantially more classes than the ones presented here. This API covers only the classes exposed to the developer using Moses. It does not cover the API of all the internal classes implementing the controller, the law server, the law tester or the controller manager.

The following represents a brief overview of the classes described in this API and their area of applicability.

• moses.controller.Law represents the portal for the developers of Java laws. The developers of laws may also require the classes in the moses.controlState package (i.e. Term,CSIterator, and Unify result) for handling the control state related aspects of the law; moses.message.Message is sometime useful for low-level designed applications that are performance aware.
• moses.member package is the portal to the developers of programmed actors that interact LGI. The most important classes part of this package are Member that represents the entry point for actor-to-controller communication, ExMember -- representing the non-LGI actor-to controller stub, and ( GenericReceiver, GenericAgent) classes that allow for non-blocking receive of messages.
  
• moses.security package provides classes that deal with certificates, public and private keys, and digital signatures. These classes are used for infrastructure and communication usually together with the moses.member. Additionally, the moses.security.Secu class provides ways to compute secure hashes required in the process of developing laws.

The javadoc description of moses API assumes that the reader is familiar to some extent with the concepts of LGI. In order to understand the key concepts of law (events, primitive operations), controllers, agents, actors etc, the reader is urged to consult the Moses manual found at http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/documentation/
Also, prior to starting the LGI programming endeavor, the tutorial section of the moses web site provides a perfect start point.