That you are integrating with Eclipse is wonderful in and of itself! However, many IDEs including ones for Java do create stubs and help manage the relationships between elements (objects, methods etc.), graphically or otherwise (I assume you have seen/used TogetherJ and used its UML-based integration functions). Some non-Java IDEs do have the graphical front ends as well - from as simple as mouse_down on a class and get a menu that includes create_subclass etc. to full D&D iconic manipulation at the class/object and method levels. Of course you still have to know how to perform an iteration etc. in the language of choice etc.
All that is not to say that Jess should follow suit as you have made your intent clear. It is great to have such a tool as Jess in the first place!!! Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 1:42 PM Subject: Re: JESS: Need Graphical IDE that abstracts user from clips format > I think Duncomb Robert Contr AFRL/IFSA wrote: > > Any plans to develop a graphical IDE with API that would abstract a user > > from having to learn the clips format? > > We might provide, at some point, a toolkit for developing > application-specific rule editors -- the kind of thing you'd put in > front of an end-user that they could use to add to or modify the rules > of a system. Although such things are easy enough to come up with > yourself, a framework could be helpful. > > But in the general sense, we definitely won't be providing such tools > intended for the developer -- such a tool would necessarily have to > hide much of the power of Jess (is there a Java IDE that abstracts you > from having to know Java? No, of course not.) Jess is positioned as > "the programmer's rule engine" -- Jess really isn't intended for > people who don't want to write code. > > Many people on the list know already that the forthcoming Jess 7 > includes an IDE based on the Eclipse platform. This won't be a > drag-and-drop rule drawing tool, but a sophisticated editor, debugger, > and associated tools to make working with Jess code easier. > > --------------------------------------------------------- > Ernest Friedman-Hill > Science and Engineering PSEs Phone: (925) 294-2154 > Sandia National Labs FAX: (925) 294-2234 > PO Box 969, MS 9012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Livermore, CA 94550 http://herzberg.ca.sandia.gov > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > in the BODY of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT to the list > (use your own address!) List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the BODY of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT to the list (use your own address!) List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
