An experimental approach of implementing real-time processing systems in a desktop virtualization environment. Demonstrates how to use Java programming language, open source APIs such as jPOS(www.jpos.org) and desktop virtualization systems such as VirtualBox to realize a near real life scenario on how to implement systems coordination. Uses Artificial Intelligence techniques of coordination in a more practical way by using XML and TCP/IP data exchange to implement a coordination media, Java programs as agents or coordinables and ISO8583 standards as coordination rules. This book therefore,...