| Re: [hyades-dev] Agent to Agent communication |
What do agents do when they have a connection to each other? Can they send each other all the commands and responses in this protocol? I think sockets are common to all platforms of interest. Are named pipes universal enough? What are the platforms of interest, anyway? The same set as Hyades today? -- Allan Pratt, apratt@xxxxxxxxxx Rational software division of IBM "Kaylor, Andrew" <andrew.kaylor@xxxxxxxxx> Sent by: hyades-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 08/20/2004 04:26 PM Please respond to hyades-dev To <hyades-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject [hyades-dev] Agent to Agent communication Attached is a fragment describing two possible ways to establish direct communications between two agents. I?ve described two ways: one using named pipes and one using sockets. The named pipe has the advantage that it would allow the agent to use the same mechanism to process commands coming directly from other agents that it uses when the commands are coming through the HCE. The disadvantage of the pipe connection is that it is not secure. The socket connection allows us to add security, and it will be reusable in the future if we ever want to communicate directly with agents on other machines. The disadvantage of the socket connection is that it is a heavier solution. Take a look at this and let me know what you think. -Andy
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