Architecture

One, and only one, JVM on each host is needed.
Communications between JVMs is done using RMI.
Within a JVM objects are simply moved (more later).
Outside of JADE, communications uses IIOP.
The agent container is an RMI server object that manages a set of agents. Each agent gets one thread. The agent container handles the routing of messages.
The agent platform provides a GUI for the remote management, monitoring and controlling of the status of agents. This GUI is implemented as an agent, the Remote Monitoring Agent (RMA).