Re: JESS: Re: Java Date in JESS

2006-02-02 Thread ejfried
I think Florian Fischer wrote: > I just wondered if there is a more elegant way to deal with dates. Jess currently doesn't treat Date objects specially in any way. You could define a few deffunctions which compared dates, and then use those on your rule LHS (or a few Java Userfunctions.) --

Re: JESS: Re: Java Date in JESS

2006-02-02 Thread Roger Studner
Not to dodge the answer, but I do milliseconds in all my date work. I guess in my mind I just didn't mind have a 'bean' object that did the work for me to allow my rules to be ignorant of what the value field type was that was being compared (until RHS 'pretty printing' of course) Roger On 2/2/

JESS: Re: Java Date in JESS

2006-02-02 Thread Florian Fischer
Hello, Is there a convenient way to express rules on Java Date attributes in shadow facts? Or is it advisable to convert all dates to integers (i.e. add a getter that returns the same date in milliseconds or seconds)? More specifically, I want to fire a rule under some conditions, one of t