May I suggest you take a look at Tohu? http://community.jboss.org/wiki/Tohu
It is a small framework to do, it seems, exactly what you described. It is built on top of Drools, but even if you prefer to write your own framework on top of Jess, it can probably give you ideas for your own design. Need to say, though, that I never used it myself, so not sure how good/bad it is, but the video demo is nice. > Lets not forget, even the Drools reference area (and JBoss Rules / Drools > Developer Book) recommends you read: "Jess in Action: Java Rule-based Systems" It is an excellent book for people that want to learn about Rule-based Systems, so why not recommend it? :) Being a Drools developer, I can tell you that we always had a good relationship with the Jess community, and we have much more to gain by cooperating than competing. That is not to detract from one engine or the other, it is just the open source way of promoting innovation and education and building upwards from the shoulders of the giants that came first... :) Cheers and Happy New Year! Edson 2010/12/31 dc tech <dctech1...@gmail.com>: >>> Perhaps a little, but not greatly. .... > Am happy to hear. Jess was my first introduction to rules engines 4-5 years > back but did not use it for a production system. Now we are looking to build > a 'guided navigation' type of app using Jess where the rules determine what > steps does a user need to do. I am really excited to be able to use a rules > engine for that type of application; I am sure many of you have built > similar things. Will keep you posted on questions/findings/lessons. > Not having done real development for many years, I really enjoyed using the > Jess shell (still v6, from the book) and actually build small prototypes > with rules. > Agree on the Drools making rules more accessible. > > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Socrates Frangis <soc.fran...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Agree with Donald, were on holiday. >> >> "Any impact from things like jBoss rules or other engines?" >> -Perhaps a little, but not greatly. I will applaud Red Hat for >> exposing more and more people to rule engines through open source >> however. >> >> With that said, I think the many users of Jess stick with it due to >> it's maturity and 'rule engine features' as apposed to the convenient >> bundling of open source middle-ware. I have the feeling that many will >> get introduced to rule engines through Drools now, but when searching >> for something that gets the job done they will sway elsewhere. >> >> Lets not forget, even the Drools reference area (and JBoss Rules / >> Drools Developer Book) recommends you read: >> "Jess in Action: Java Rule-based Systems" >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:26 AM, dc tech <dctech1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Rejoining the Jess community after a multi-year hiatus and notice that >> > the >> > mailing list has been very quiet. I am curious to see how Jess is doing >> > now >> > a days? Any impact from things like jBoss rules or other engines? Is the >> > community still pretty active? >> > Happy Holidays to everyone ! >> >> >> >> -- >> V/R >> -Socrates Frangis >> -Mathematician & Software Engineer >> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users y...@address.com' >> in the BODY of a message to majord...@sandia.gov, NOT to the list >> (use your own address!) List problems? Notify owner-jess-us...@sandia.gov. >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users y...@address.com' in the BODY of a message to majord...@sandia.gov, NOT to the list (use your own address!) List problems? Notify owner-jess-us...@sandia.gov. --------------------------------------------------------------------
