JSoarLegilimens

Introduction

Legilimens is a web-based debugging interface for JSoar agents. Once it is enabled in an application, it will start a lightweight web server through which you can monitor and debug your agents. From the web interface you can

• View the agent trace
• Execute commands
• View and edit production
• Inspect working memory
• etc.

Requirements

To use Legilimens, jsoar-legilimens.jar must be on your class path. Additionally, Legilimens is only compatible with ThreadedAgent-based systems. The raw Agent class does not provide the concurrency guarantees required to build an effective general debugging interface.

Enabling Legilimens

To enable Legilimens you need only call the method org.jsoar.legilimens.LegilimensServer.start(). Once called, Legilimens will automatically detect new agents and hook into them as needed.

Alternatively, if the auto-start system property (see below) is enabled, Legilimens will be started when the first ThreadedAgent is constructed.

Configuration

Legilimens is mostly configured through system properties:

Property	Default	Description
jsoar.legilimens.autoStart	false	If true, then Legilimens will be started automatically when the first ThreadedAgent instance is created. If Legilimens is not on the classpath, a warning is printed and this property is ignored.
jsoar.legilimens.root	"/jsoar"	The "application root" of the web-app. For example, the default value makes the web-app accessible at "http://localhost:12122/jsoar/"
jsoar.legilimens.port	12122	The default port that the web server listens on.
jsoar.legilimens.trace.size	256000	The default size, in characters, of the in-memory trace buffer. The full trace is stored on disk, but the most recent agent output is stored in memory to improve performance.
jsoar.legilimens.trace.deleteOnExit	true	If true, the on-disk version of the trace will be deleted when the JVM exits.