Table of Contents

Overview

Getting started

• Typographic Conventions
• Installation
• Quick Start
• Security Issues
• A Simple Access Control Mechanism

Programming Knowbots

• Roadmap for the KOE Source Code
• Introduction to Knowbot Programming
• Introduction to Plugin Programming
• Configuring Plugins
• Using ISL files in the KOE
• Example Knowbot Programs

User Tools

• killkp - Kill KPs
• koeboot, koehalt - Starting and stopping the KOE
• kpps - KP process status
• kpshell - An Interactive Knowbot Shell
• nslist - Examining the namespace
• rs - Graphical utility for controlling KPs
• submit - Submitting KPs to service stations
• visu - Window on the KOE
• worldroot - The replicated namespace manager

Programmers' Reference

• Special Objects
• KOS Bastion

• Modules
• access
• FileImpl
• ilutools
• iotools
• kptools
• MappingImpl
• NamespaceImpl
• nstools
• pathhack
• pluginlib
• RS
• shadow
• Suitcase
• tktools

• Interfaces
• AdministratorAPI
• ContentProviderAPI
• ContentRegistrarAPI
• FileAPI
• HTTPAPI
• KOS
• KOSKernel
• KPRepr
• Mapping
• Namespace
• Network
• PlayerAPI
• RAPK
• ReportingAPI
• SimpleIOAPI

Testcases catalog

Demonstration Applications

• Using KPs for Intellectual Property Rights Management
• Using KPs for Ongoing Resource Negotiation
• Providing Web Content via Knowbot Programs

Glossary