Chapter 1    JADE Concepts and Terminology

This chapter covers the following topics.

• Overview

• Types

• Objects and Classes

  • Object Lifetimes

• Features

• Properties

• Methods

  • Conditions

  • Constraints

• Encapsulation

• Inheritance and Polymorphism

• Schemas

  • Accessing and Updating Instances of Classes in Other Schemas

  • Controlling the Use of Elements in Other Schemas

  • Packages

• Applications

• JADE Language

• Exception Handling

• JADE Development Environment

• JADE Runtime Environment

• JADE Object Manager