• Currently, a beta release of Agora98 is available. The applet version of Agora98 is called Agorette. You need a Java 1.1 aware browser to run this applet. Of course the 'Dump Image' and 'Read Image' buttons will not work from within a browser (they require file management and this is not allowed by the security management for applets). [changed 17 november 1997]
• There is also an application version of Agora98. This version is called Agorique and can be downloaded from our FTP sever. Again, you need Java 1.1 to run it. [changed 17 november 1997] (If the server does not work, try this link.)
• We are working very hard on the documentation of Agorette and Agorique right now. A draft version can be found here. [changed 14 november 1997]
• If you want to use the reflective capabilities of Agora98, you will need the implementation documentation. This documentation was generated with JavaDoc. It is also available. [changed 17 november 1997]
• If you have questions about Agora98, contact Wolfgang De Meuter.
• Check out these small examples to get a flavour of what is possible in Agora98.
• Important 1: You can run both Agorette and Agorique in the Java interpreter and appletviewer of JDK 1.1.4 or higher. Due to bugs in the API's, they don't run in JDK 1.1.3 or lower. Agorette currently also runs stable on the Virtual Machine of M**ft In**N**rer 4.0. To the best of our knowledge, other Java 1.1 virtual machines are still unstable.
• Important 2: Everything from the underlying Java can be accessed in Agora98. The inverse is not yet possible: you can not yet 'push' a self-written Agora98 object into the Java API's. But we are working on that. A proof-of-concept implementation is finished, but it is still to buggy to put it on the web.

New features

• A considerable simplification of the language
• Written in Java
• Allows full access to the underlying Java
• The system runs as an applet in your web browser (needs a Java 1.1 aware browser).