About the BlackboardPattern Project

The purpose of this project is to practice implementing the Blackboard pattern. This project extends upon the Heartbeat Tactic pacemaker project, and adds additional components as detailed in the blackboard pattern to help the system process and generate knowledge.

Architectural Overview

Dependencies

This application was created with JDK 8 and Eclipse

Running the App From Eclipse:

1. Clone or copy this repository to your local machine

2. Open up Eclipse, and import this project

   File > Import... > General > Existing Projects into Workspace > PATH TO PROJECT

3. Run PacemakerController

4. Run HeartSimulator

5. Thats it! A GUI should pop up and show you that the pacemaker is running.

Running the App From the Command Line:

1. Clone or copy this repository to your local machine

2. Open up command line client

3. Change directory to ...PATH/TO/BlackboardPattern/bin

4. Run PacemakerController with the following command:

   java pacemaker.PacemakerController

5. Open a second command line client

6. Change working directory to same as before (...PATH/TO/BlackboardPattern/bin)

7. Run HeartSimulator with the following command:

   java pacemaker.HeartSimulator

8. Thats it! A GUI should pop up and show you that the pacemaker is running.