JESS: Announcing Jess 6.1p5

2003-09-04 Thread ejfried
Hi Folks, The latest release of Jess, the rule engine for the Java platform, is now available from the usual place: http://herzberg.ca.sandia.gov/jess This is a minor bug fix release. Changes in this this version: Jess now works as a standard extension, including loading user classes

RE: JESS: Defrule ordering woes

2003-09-04 Thread Alan Moore
> My only concern is whether to expose the complexity to the user. On > the one hand, control is good; on the other hand, hard-to-understand > features don't get used. Here, I'm tempted to simply make the entire > RHS of every rule "atomic" in this sense, w.r.t. the agenda, because, > consider this

Re: JESS: Defrule ordering woes

2003-09-04 Thread ejfried
I think Alan Moore wrote: > Could you selectively lock the agenda on a per-assert basis by having the > thread asserting facts be able to run a "transaction" during which the > agenda is locked? > > This could be done explicitly like this: > > (defrule abc > ... > => >((engine) startTransact

Re: JESS: Enhancement request - (import)

2003-09-04 Thread rul3zrul3z
  One possible approach to this issue is to have a plugin interface which allows users to define new classloaders the same way new functions are added.  This is particularly useful in the case of IDE, where a user starts up Eclipse and it loads the state of the last project.   In a dynamic environm

Re: JESS: Enhancement request - (import)

2003-09-04 Thread ejfried
I think Alan Moore wrote: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Would it be possible to have the (import) function fail or give a warning > when the specified package and/or class doesn't exist. Currently, > > (import com.package.doesnt.exist.MyMispeledClass) > > doesn't give

RE: JESS: Using Deffacts with Batch command

2003-09-04 Thread Robert Voorn
Thanks, This was exactly what I was looking. I should've found it myself though. Sorry about that. Anyway, thanks again, Robert -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: donderdag 4 september 2003 13:40 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp

Re: JESS: Using Deffacts with Batch command

2003-09-04 Thread ejfried
> I'm trying to load new facts from a clp file at run-time. I've tried > using the batch command to load a jess file containing some rules and a > deffacts construct. However, only the rules are added and the deffacts > construct is ignored. Am I doing something wrong, or doesn't Jess parse > thes

JESS: Enhancement request - (import)

2003-09-04 Thread Alan Moore
Would it be possible to have the (import) function fail or give a warning when the specified package and/or class doesn't exist. Currently, (import com.package.doesnt.exist.MyMispeledClass) doesn't give any indication that something is wrong. alan Alan Moore - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ciphergen

JESS: Using Deffacts with Batch command

2003-09-04 Thread Robert Voorn
Hi,   I’m trying to load new facts from a clp file at run-time. I’ve tried using the batch command to load a jess file containing some rules and a deffacts construct. However, only the rules are added and the deffacts construct is ignored. Am I doing something wrong, or doesn’t Jess parse