Tag: training

• Useful update for Maven practitioners (10 Nov 2012 | Tags: development, training)

  The tutorial has been updated to include relevant information for Maven users. INGENIAS elements can be found under the groupid net.sf.ingenias in Maven Central. The main developer is escalope and the packages ought to be signed. If you know about Maven, you can already use the compoments there. There are archetypes for building INGENIAS projects. The relevant archetypes are: iafarch-empty: it creates an empty project iafarch-gui: it creates a project showing how an agent can interface with a GUI iafarch-helloworld: a basic example of an agent printing hello world iafarch-interaction: a more complex example involving interaction among agents as well...

• Changes in the editor and archetypes (15 Oct 2012 | Tags: video, training)

  I have finished some videos on INGENIAS. It is the hello world example combined with the latest features: a new script structure which is more reliable than the maven-ant-plugin. This plugin has as a defect that it takes literal references to current jar files stored in .m2 folder. Usually, nothing happens, but, when you are working with snapshots, it is a mess. Also, it tries to download jar files into .m2 without using at all other maven files which tell maven which version to use, for example. As a result, the progran you run with ant (i.e., using the maven-ant-plugin)...

• Experiences after a course on INGENIAS in Soria (Spain) (26 Sep 2012 | Tags: training, feedback)

  Yesterday, I finished a course on INGENIAS in Soria for some companies. The experience tells first that Java is not that multi-platform. It is well known, but, from time to time, it is worth reminding it. Concretely, the following issues were detected: The paths. Paths in windows, specially in non-english languages, tend to have special characters. To prevent issues with XML, in our tools, those special characters are removed. This leads to undesirable behaviors, like converting an existing path to a string without troublesome characters but corresponding to a non existing path. Don’t bring your .m2 folder. It turns out...