RPMS available, swarm 2.1.26 (dated 2001-01-10)

[Paul E Johnson]

Go here to get RPMS for new swarm snapshot for JDK users:
http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.x_RPMSforRH7/i686/

The files are:

http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.x_RPMSforRH7/i686/swarm-hdf5-2.1.26.20010110-1.RH7.jdk13.i686.rpm
http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.x_RPMSforRH7/i686/swarm-hdf5-jdk-2.1.26.20010110-1.RH7.jdk13.i686.rpm
http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.x_RPMSforRH7/i686/swarm-hdf5-static-2.1.26.20010110-1.RH7.jdk13.i686.rpm

If anybody uses kaffe and wants an RPM, let me know, I'll see about it.

This new snap has a significant enhancement that takes care of the issue
I raised in the email list with the message entitled "null objects don't
yell".  As a test case, consider this console output from a Swarm job
were i intentionally sent a command to a null object.  The stack trace
points exactly at the line where I inserted the mistaken code:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at Citizen.receiveInvitation$Offer$Status(Citizen.java:319)
        at Recruiter.contactAllIn$Offer$Status(Recruiter.java:543)
        at DemocOrg.doRecruiting(DemocOrg.java:115)
        at ModelSwarm.stepAgents(ModelSwarm.java:397)
        at swarm.simtoolsgui.GUISwarmImpl.go(Native Method)
        at ObserverSwarm.main(ObserverSwarm.java:408)
*** event raised for error: InvalidOperation
*** function: _i_FCall_c__performCall(), file:
/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.26.20010110/src/defobj/FCall.m,
line: 643
Exception occurred in Java method `stepAgents'
*** execution terminating due to error
/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.26.20010110/src/defobj/Symbol.m:173
-[Error(c) _raiseEvent:]
/usr/bin/javaswarm: line 1: 25192 Aborted                
APPHOME=/usr/local/jdk1.3
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/jdk1.3/jre/lib/i386/native_threads:/usr/local/jdk1.3/jre/lib/i386:/usr/local/jdk1.3/jre/lib/i386/hotspot::/usr/lib:/usr/lib/swarm:/usr/X11R6/lib:
CLASSPATH='.:/usr/share/swarm/swarm.jar:/usr/share/swarm/kawa.jar:/usr/local/jdk1.3/jre/lib/rt.jar:'
/usr/local/jdk1.3/jre/bin/i386/native_threads/java 'ObserverSwarm'

For me, this is a major improvement and I'd encourage all Java-swarm
users to upgrade.  Marcus Daniels has put fixes up on the Swarm ftp site
already.  I would like to thank Marcus Daniels for figuring this out so
quickly and making Swarm do what I want.

-- 
Paul E. Johnson                       email: address@hidden
Dept. of Political Science            http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn
University of Kansas                  Office: (785) 864-9086
Lawrence, Kansas 66045                FAX: (785) 864-5700

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