README

Brahms Composer version 1.8

9/29/2009
Copyright (c) 1998-2009 NASA Ames Research Center. All Rights Reserved.

I. Welcome!

Welcome to NASA's Brahms Composer for Brahms Agent Environment 1.3.2 for Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Linux, Sparc/Solaris and Mac OS X. Please take a few minutes to read this file, which contains the latest information regarding this release.

The Brahms Composer is an integrated development environment to allow a Brahms model builder to quickly build and compile Brahms models.

II. Features in this Release

Support for language specification 2.18 with support for the new detectable and transfer conditions supporting class variables, wildcard, and optional right hand side and supporting the now optional precondition modifier.

III. Known Problems

IV. Revision History

The revision history for the Brahms Composer can be found in the file named Changes.

V. Important Notes

Make sure that the Brahms Agent Environment is up-to-date. The release of the Brahms compiler must be at the minimum 2.22.1. If you don't have the appropriate version installed, please download it from the website and apply the appropriate patches.
It is possible on Windows to use anti-aliasing for the fonts. Open the Composer.lax file in the AgentEnvironment/bin directory. At the end of the line that begins with "lax.nl.java.option.additional=" add the following: -Dswing.aatext=true

VI. Contacting the Brahms project team for Technical Support

In case you have problems with the installation or questions and problems with the use of the Brahms Composer you can reach Technical Support at:

E-mail: support@agentisolutions.com
www: http://www.agentisolutions.com/support/support.htm

If the application crashes or behaves badly, please save a copy of the log file "ide.log" located in the directory "AgentEnvironment/Logs".

Thank you for trying the Brahms Composer. We hope you find it useful in your modeling and agent development efforts.

Sincerely,

The Brahms Development Team