Hi Graham,
I've recently seen a demo of ILOG JRules product, a commercial software that
is competing Jess as a RETE implementation.
I wasn't very much impressed, but my bosses were : what they bring as
"business value" is a mapping of rules to natural language. Talking with the
guys made it all clear how easy it is to do it : use reflection to map rule
operators to java functions implemented by the objects.
ILOG has the advantage of "first on the market" ... but a nice Jess add-in
implementation can very well do it ! Anybody wanna try ?
Another thing that came out of that meeting : their effort to push their
implementation as a standard for the Java Rule Engine API JSR 00094 (see
http://java.sun.com/aboutJava/communityprocess/jsr/jsr_094_ruleengine.html).
Another proof that big vendors try to take on the market using SUN's JCP
program.
I'll stick with Jess, thank you !
Eugen
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graham Heyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 1:47 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: JESS: natural language and Jess?
>
>
> Hello Folks
> I dropped off the jess list for a while so I'm sorry if this topic
> has been beaten to death already. I couldn't find much in the archives
> though.
> I would like to use Jess in a real-time control system to monitor
> parameters from physical devices like power supplies, pumps, magnets
> etc. I have writen a few clip files as part of a pilot project to test
> the fesability. I was showing the clip to someone and their
> comment was
> "I hope you don't expect our users to learn this!". It's a
> valid point.
> I think I understand clip/Jess but the language itself is rather
> cryptic. Is there any "natural language" method out there which would
> allow us to write rules and facts in a way which a non-expert can
> understand. I could probably get someone in my group to work
> on it but,
> obviously, would rather start with something which already exists.
> Regards,
>
> Graham
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