First of all, such a software could not be done without all the free software available:

• for scripting:
• athena : the smalltalk scripting environment
• beanshell: the java scripting environment
• kawa: the scheme (and any lisp-like) scripting environment
• jscheme: yet another (simpler) scheme scripting environment
• jython: the Python scripting environment
• tuprolog: the Prolog scripting environment
• unimod: for state charts even if abandonned because too heavy and complicated
• for the user interface:
• violet: a versatile UML editor I used and rewrote almost completely
• jung: for visualizing the simulation structure as a graph
• jfreechart: for plots of any sorts (and more!)
• other utilities:
• log4j: the logging utilities for Apache (even if not everything is loggable yet!)

I would like to not thank Jess at all for not giving me any opportunity to test their software despite being in an academic settings.

Until now and as far as I know, this software is referenced in the following websites:

• softpedia
• openabm

Finally, these links would not be complete without a reference to the other platform developped in the same team: CORMAS: