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The JADE platform tools and some of 2APL tools were certainly helpful from beginning to end and provided us with information that would have otherwise been hard to see or find. Of course we can connect any of our agents to any other agent in the JADE platform and having portability is a helpful and important feature.
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The negative aspects of 2APL are few, but certainly relevant. Firstly it is clearly a tool designed primarily for research and not for industry development. The documentation for 2APL is still relatively vague and requires some updating, while the examples given are few and sadly not fully detailed. The environment and the agents we built ware done by scanning the code of some of the Java classes of an example and thus we lacked the true ability to implement a full application (this was never our intention, but knowing that if you wanted it would be very difficult certainly is not a positive aspect).
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The negative aspects of 2APL are few, but certainly relevant. Firstly it is clearly a tool designed primarily for research and not for industry development. The documentation for 2APL is still relatively vague and requires some updating, while the examples given are few and sadly not fully detailed. The environment and the agents we built ware done by scanning the code of some of the Java classes of an example and thus we lacked the true ability to implement a full application (this was never our intention, but knowing that implementing a fully operational high scale piece of software would be made harder due to the poor support is worth mentioning).
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Even though declarative programming does give us a very powerful logic system, it does lack library support such as databases, load data and other form of operation in which a prolog library would be required (and not allowed in 2APL).Finally, even though it was previously mentioned, the 2APL parser was so unhelpful that it barely provided us with any useful information. Clearer instructions or error messages would be necessary if any serious development was to be made in this language.
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Even though declarative programming does give us a very powerful logic system, it does lack library support.Prolog lacks computational tools to provide agents with the ability to compute things on their own (in its current state the designer is forced to have the environment calculate it for the agent, instead of allowing the agent to encapsulate the calculation method in its own code). Finally, even though it was previously mentioned, the 2APL parser was so unhelpful that it barely provided us with any useful information. Clearer instructions or error messages would be necessary if any serious development was to be made in this language.
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So even though we praised 2APL for some things and despised it for others, as a whole we were pleased to develop with 2APL and do believe that with more work it can become the "go to" language of multiagent systems... at least from a research point of view.
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