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Table of contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• Notational conventions
• Installation and first steps
• Installing a sample system
• Getting the software
• Creating directories
• Configuring PNS
• Place configuration
• CA
• Place identities
• User identities
• Import and CA policy
• Privileges
• Starting a place
• Compiling and signing Place Users
• Using make
• Using ant
• Configuring and using AMAI
• Configuring and using AMSI
• My first agent
• My first user adapter
• My first service
• Makefiles
• Places
• Kinds of places
• Naming
• PNS structure
• PNS configuration
• Starting PNS
• Using PNS
• Administrating PNS
• Place configuration
• Security configuration
• Starting and stopping
• Checking runtime status
• Place Users
• Agents
• User adapters
• Service managers
• Driver features
• Signed Place User Container
• Container structure
• Advanced examples
• User interfaces
• Working with AMAI
• UI layout
• Settings
• Shut down places
• Connect and disconnect
• Starting Place Users
• Place User registration
• Trace window
• Extended panel
• Place configuration
• Shut down AMAI
• Working with AMSI
• AMSI features
• Configuring AMSI
• Place inquiry
• Domain inquiry
• Connect and disconnect
• Starting Place Users
• Displaying maintenance data
• Shut down places
• Scripting
• Implementing agents
• Hello World!
• Mobility
• State-oriented programming
• Migration subsystem
• Notes on migration
• Common exception handling
• Complex applications
• Messages and communication
• Message structure
• Addressing
• Place User ID Internals
• Categories
• Subcategories
• Deletability
• Options
• Message body
• Specification
• Discussion on usage
• Body content restriction
• Sendables
• Example
• Message events
• Message dispatching
• Events
• The event manager
• Notification
• Event classes
• Registration
• Event ID
• Priorities
• Options
• Arguments
• Unregistration
• Configuration
• Event overview
• Future of events
• Types and mediation
• Types
• String types
• Comparing types
• Advanced types
• SPUs and changing types
• Using the mediator
• The trivial mediator
• The Hybrid Type System
• States
• Equivalence of states
• Transitions
• Kinds of states and transitions
• Nondeterminism
• Message sender and receiver
• Reducing the graph
• Compatibility and conformance
• Message type
• Ontology
• Conceptual graphs
• Annotations
• Syntactic type
• Transition type
• Semantic type
• Textual representation
• Creating types from strings
• Creating syntactic types
• Creating transition types
• Creating semantic types
• Hybrid type conformance
• Hybrid type mediator
• Utilities
• Services
• Service manager
• Service object
• Service description
• Interaction mode
• Parameters
• Parameter handling
• Service usage
• Example
• Using contexts
• Principles
• States and contexts
• Contexts and messages
• Context manager
• Context processing
• Sequential context processor
• Spontaneous contexts
• Contexts and services
• Programming interface
• Standard contexts
• Customized contexts
• Context manager and context control
• Context processor
• Message retriever and retrieve policy
• Examples
• Simple agents
• Agent and service
• Spontaneous service
• Messenger example
• The service for the messenger
• The messenger
• The remote agent
• Running the example
• Advanced programming
• Structuring user adapters
• Multithreaded GUIs
• Starting agents
• File access
• Loading classes
• Base type wrappers
• Installing Place Users
• Security
• Issues
• The basic principles
• Identities
• Certificates
• Managing identities
• Authenticating users
• Authenticating agents
• Authorization
• Permissions
• Creating permissions
• Creating permissions from strings
• Privileging external classes
• Privileges
• Services and privileges
• Managing privileges
• Requesting privileges
• Policies overview
• Identity-related policies
• Place User-related policies
• Place-related policies
• Managing policies
• Encryption
• Attack scenarios
• Encryption example
• External security systems
• Application scenario
• External authorization
• External/internal authorization
• Working with SecAdmin
• Features
• Identities
• Privileges and permissions
• Signatures and policies
• Miscellaneous commands
• Using the ContainerBuilder
• Features
• Operation modes
• Building containers
• Signatures
• Miscellaneous commands
• The ClassAnalyzer
• Terms
• SPU creation basics
• Correct CLASSPATH
• Declaring as system class
• Usage by ContainerBuilder
• Manual usage
• Example
• Utilities
• Working with threadpools
• Working with caches
• Working with semaphores
• For the advanced
• Multithreading in agents
• Anti-patterns of message handling
• Event handling
• Exception handling
• Synchronization
• Labels
• Developing and testing
• Appendix
• Licence agreements
• Contact
• The history
• Notes for release 2.6
• Glossary
• A-H
• I-O
• P-R
• S-Z