1. Tutorial 3 ACL: Agent Communication Language
Dr. Fuhua Lin
School of Computing and Information Systems
Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada
Oct. 27, 2009

2. Initiate a conversation using SimpleAchieveREInitiator
public class SimpleRequestInitiator extends Agent {   
static class MarriageProposer extends SimpleAchieveREInitiator {
protected MarriageProposer(Agent agent, ACLMessage msg) {           
super(agent, msg);        }
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2. Message
Sending
In the parent
class
1. Message
construction }
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3. Using Standard Handlers as methods of MarriageProposer
protected void handleAgree(ACLMessage msg) {           
System.out.println(myAgent.getLocalName() + ": Ha Ha! " +           
msg.getSender().getLocalName() +” has already agreed to marry me. I'm so excited!");  }
       
protected void handleRefuse(ACLMessage msg) {           
System.out.println(myAgent.getLocalName() + ": Oh no! " +           
msg.getSender().getLocalName() +rejected me. I feel sad.");   }
protected void handleInform(ACLMessage msg) {           
System.out.println(myAgent.getLocalName() + ":" +           
msg.getSender().getLocalName() +" has informed me of the status of my request." +           
" They said : " + msg.getContent());        }       
protected void handleNotUnderstood(ACLMessage msg){           
System.out.println(myAgent.getLocalName() + ":"               
+ msg.getSender().getLocalName() +               
" has indicated that they didn't understand.");        }       
protected void handleOutOfSequence(ACLMessage msg) {           
System.out.println(myAgent.getLocalName() + ":"      
          + msg.getSender().getLocalName() +  "has sent me a message which I wasn't" +               
" expecting in this conversation"); }

4. SimpleRequestResponder