How to upgrade user code to JADE 2.0

Author: Fabio Bellifemine (CSELT S.p.A.), Tiziana Trucco (CSELT S.p.A.)

Date: January,17 2000

Java platform: Sun JDK 1.2 Windows

JADE version 2.1



Compliance to FIPA 2000 specifications required also a slight modification of the API's of JADE 2.0. At a first glance, the user might be discouraged on porting his code from JADE 1.X to JADE 2.X because of the high number of error that the JAVA compiler would report; however in all cases, it is just a question of automatic replacement of code. This tutorial tries to help in this upgrading phase.

The following are the most considerable modifications in FIPA and how they impact your user code.


JADE is a trademark of CSELT. JADE has been developed jointly by CSELT and the Computer Engineering Group of the University of Parma