Artificial Life is a free and open sourced Java
framework created to simulate Life. It is a multi-
agent framework where each agent runs its own Thread.
The agents are split into two different categories:
The services and the processes. The services deliver
services to other agents and the processes execute
specific tasks.
The agents are organized in a tree structure called
Instance. Within an Instance, the services and the
processes are grouped together thus, an unlimited
number of groups can be defined. Each node of the
Instance tree can have a collection of views used to
monitor the activity of the node or interact with the
node. The definition of Java classes used within the
Instance (i.e. processes, services or views) is
defined in the Instance Model.
In order to avoid dead locking, Artificial Life
implements a messaging system, a method invocation
mechanism based on the messaging system and an event
mechanism also based on the messaging system.

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