Problem starting cougaar using communities

[Andreas]

Todd or anyone else who would like to chime in,

Where can I find more information on the non-legacy community service? 

I get the impression the documentation of Cougaar Communities in the 
Cougaar Developers Guide 11.4 describes the legacy community service.

What I really quickly tried to do with my application was to 
re-configure it using the following

    <runtime>
    ...   
       
    <vm_parameter>-Dorg.cougaar.society.xsl.param.communities=true</vm_parameter>
    </runtime>

and

    <society>
        <node name="APPA">
            <agent name="DirMonAgent">
    ...      
               <!-- Community members need the CommunityPlugin but this
    is for the legacy community service so I am commenting it out
               <component class='org.cougaar.community.CommunityPlugin' />
                -->
                <!-- for the non-legacy community service I need to use
    the following -->
                <component
    class="org.cougaar.core.agent.service.community.JoinCommunity">
                    <argument name="community" value="DirMonCommunity"/>
               </component>
            </agent>
        </node>
    </society>

These are just excerpts.

When I run the application it starts up ok, but then starts sending out 
the following warning message over and over.

    Warning Trigger
    TSD:Trigger(com.appa.agent.plugin.dirmon.DLReportPlugin):null threw
    java.lang.UnsupportedOperationExcept
    ion: Only supports null or "(Role=Member)" search filter, not
    (Role=Manager)
    java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Only supports null or
    "(Role=Member)" search filter, not (Role=Manager)
            at
    org.cougaar.core.agent.service.community.CommunityServiceProvider$CommunityServiceImpl.searchCommunity(Commun
    ityServiceProvider.java:578)
            at
    org.cougaar.core.agent.service.community.CommunityServiceProvider$CommunityServiceImpl.search(CommunityServic
    eProvider.java:567)
    ....

One of my ABA targets was using Role=Manager.  Without the community.xml 
file no agents are defined with the role=Manager.  How do I go about 
doing this with the non-legacy service?  Is it just a matter of coding 
it into the agent load or setupSubscription methods or is there some 
kind of configuration approach?

Thanks in advance.
Andreas






Todd Wright wrote:
>
> Communities are not required for the mesh demo.  Remove the following 
> plugin from your XML file:
>   org.cougaar.community.CommunityPlugin
>
> You're correctly setting the Cougaar template property:
>   -Dorg.cougaar.society.xsl.param.template=single_node
> which disables the legacy community service:
>   http://cougaar.cougaar.org/software/latest/OnlineManual/Templates.html
>
> If you require the legacy community service, you can enable it by 
> either removing:
>   -Dorg.cougaar.society.xsl.param.template=single_node
> or adding:
>   -Dorg.cougaar.society.xsl.param.communities=legacy
> This will load the service and it should find your "communities.xml".
>
> You may also be interested in the non-legacy community service 
> implementation, which can be enabled with:
>   -Dorg.cougaar.society.xsl.param.template=wan
> or:
>   -Dorg.cougaar.society.xsl.param.communities=true
> Demo "join" and "test" plugins are included with Cougaar:
> http://cougaar.cougaar.org/software/latest/javadoc/core/doc/api/org/cougaar/core/agent/service/community/package-summary.html 
>
>
> Todd
>
> Andreas wrote:
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