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package jade.core.behaviours;

import jade.core.Agent;


/**
   Atomic behaviour that must be executed forever. This abstract class
   can be extended by application programmers to create behaviours
   that keep executing continuously (e.g. simple reactive behaviours).


   @author Giovanni Rimassa - Universita' di Parma
   @version $Date: 2003-11-18 14:24:25 +0100 (mar, 18 nov 2003) $ $Revision: 4550 $

 */
public abstract class CyclicBehaviour extends SimpleBehaviour {

  /**
     Default constructor. It does not set the owner agent.
  */
  public CyclicBehaviour() {
    super();
  }

  /**
     This constructor sets the owner agent for this
     <code>CyclicBehaviour</code>.
     @param a The agent this behaviour must belong to.
  */
  public CyclicBehaviour(Agent a) {
    super(a);
  }

  /**
     This is the method that makes <code>CyclicBehaviour</code>
     cyclic, because it always returns <code>false</code>.
     @return Always <code>false</code>.
  */
  public final boolean done() {
    return false;
  }

}

