The HotAgent development environment is a component framework to construct agents for electronic commerce. The framework provides a special set of pre-fabricated components to facilitate the construction of agents. The agents could undertake the task of doing routine work, as described above. The HotAgent development environment offers different tools to develop components, to test components, and to compose agents using components. During the development of HotAgent the concept of component technology is consistently used. All developed tools have a similar GUI (Graphic User Interface) to ensure that the developer feels familiar with all tools if he knows one. The different tools are all integrated in each other; so it is, e.g., possible to create a test case while creating a new component.

The environment is implemented using VisualWorks Smalltalk. It is based on a simple component model. With a strict separation between components and classes, it offers a strict compliance with the component concept.

There are two different kinds of editors for component development and component assembly.

In addition to this HotAgent allows to test and analyze components with user-defined test cases.

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2003

• Martin, Ludger und Johannes Martin: HotAgent: Round Trip Component Development. Annals of Mathematics, Computing & Teleinformatics, 2003, Vol 1, No 1
• Martin, Ludger: Visuelles Komponieren und Testen von Komponenten am Beispiel von Agenten im elektronischen Handel. Doctoral dissertation, Darmstadt University of Technology, May 2003.
• Handl, Daniela, Hans-Jürgen Hoffmann, and Ludger Martin: Enhancing the E-business community by software component technology. International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for e-Business, e-Education, e-Science, e-Medicine, and Mobile Technologies on the Internet, CD-ROM, January 2003

2002

• Martin, Ludger: Visual Composition of Components. The 6th IASTED International Conference Software Engineering and Applications, pages 501 - 508, November 2002
• Martin, Ludger, Anke Giesl, and Johannes Martin: Dynamic Component Program Visualization. Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, pages 289 - 298, October 2002
• Martin, Ludger, Anke Giesl, and Johannes Martin: Dynamische Komponenten-Programm-Visualisierung. 4. Workshop Software-Reengineering, April 2002
• Martin, Ludger: Visual Component Integration and Regression Test. ICSR7 2002 Workshop on Component-based Software Development Processes, April 2002

2001

• Martin, Ludger: HotAgent Component Assembly Editor. In Schneider, Jean-Guy and Markus Lumpe (editor): Proceedings Workshop on Component Composition Languages, page 25 - 32, September 2001.
• Martin, Ludger: Poster "Visual Development Environment Based on Component Technique". In Proceedings IEEE Symposia on Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments, page 346 - 347, September 2001.

2000

• Martin, Ludger and Elke Siemon: Poster "Component Visualization Based on the Programmer's Conceptual Model". In OOPSLA '00 Companion, page 73 - 74, 2000.
• Handl, Daniela, Hans-Jürgen Hoffmann, Ludger Martin: "Inter-Enterprise" Frameworks in E-Business - a Viewpoint. Fayad, Mohamed E. (Editor): OOPSLA 2000 2nd Workshop on Enterprise Frameworks: "Adequacies and Inadequacies"
• Martin, Ludger: Visualisierung von Komponenten für Benutzungsoberflächen. Diploma thesis. Darmstadt University of Technology. 2000

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