Re: Swarm -> Windows-NT...

[Peter Liang]

Vladimir Jojic wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 20 May 1997, Peter Liang wrote:
> 
> > JAVA  seems an ideal language because of its built-in multithreading
> > capabilities.  And it will be portable.  It is a Very good idea.
> >
> 
> I am afraid that you are missing the point. Language, that is going to be
> used for the development of the agents (and the core of the swarm)  will
> still be the objective c - not Java.
> 
> Fact that Java has multithreading capability or not, will not change the
> picture. Please, correct me if I am wrong.
> 
> Java is going to be present there as a displaying tool, not in the core of
> the things ... and users of the swarm will not be able to all of Java's
> nice features ... at least not in the first phase ...
> 
> Regards,
> Vladimir
> 

Why not implement the core of the swarm in java as well?  You will have
the capability to interact with real situations by using JavaBeans for
instance.  SWARM then becomes more than a simulation environment.

Where can I get a good description of SWARM object model?

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