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(Message started by: speek on Jul 16^th, 2010, 6:15am)

Title: Are there any JVM bots?
Post by speek on Jul 16^th, 2010, 6:15am

I heard that the bot program is begun anew for each move on the server. This would be somewhat impractical for a bot programmed in a jvm language. Are there any bots programmed in Java (or Scala, Clojure)?

Title: Re: Are there any JVM bots?
Post by Janzert on Jul 16^th, 2010, 6:46am

Clueless is written in Java, and yes I believe Jdb switched to AEI primarily to avoid the startup time on every move.

AEI is an interface I developed for Arimaa engines (forum thread (http://arimaa.com/arimaa/forum/cgi/YaBB.cgi?board=devTalk;action=display;num=1249585723) and homepage (http://arimaa.janzert.com/aei/)). It uses a persistent connection to an engine for the full length of a game.

Janzert

Title: Re: Are there any JVM bots?
Post by speek on Jul 16^th, 2010, 7:00am

Great. Bookmarked - I will plug into that once I have gotten to that stage. Thank you!

Title: Re: Are there any JVM bots?
Post by rbarreira on Jul 16^th, 2010, 7:49am

The bot interface which starts the program for each move is now deprecated, as long as you use AEI you'll be fine.

Title: Re: Are there any JVM bots?
Post by jdb on Jul 18^th, 2010, 7:22pm

AEI also allows for playing postal games and running test tournaments. All of this is included in the AEI package. Both are great tools.