[JDEV] sub agents?

[Brian Lalor]

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, DJ Adams wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 11:18:08AM -0700, Brian Lalor wrote:
> > Can someone give me a quick overview of subagents?  how do you set up the 
> > jabber.xml (or do you?) to let it know that they exist, and how should the 
> > master agent behave?
> 
> Hi Brian
> 
> by subagents, do you mean components that connect to a Jabber server?

Well, in my dictionary, an agent is a component that connects to the 
server, and then exposes other agents "below" itself in the tree. So:

. jabber.org
  `-- agent1
      |-- agent1-1
      `-- agent1-2

agent1-1 and 1-2 are then sub-agents of agent1.

In my pooled user idea I was talking about earlier in the week, there'd be 
a pool agent/component that exposes sub-agents that are the pooled 
aliases.  For example:

. jabber.org
  `-- PooledAliases
     |-- unixadmin at pooledaliases.jabber.org
     `-- helpdesk at pooledaliases.jabber.org

I know I've seen something like multi-level agents on jabber.org before; 
maybe the irc component?

It probably has something to do with jabber:iq:agents that gets answered 
by the component and not the server.

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