Sounds cool. Other nice languages to be able to read for your rule base
could be...
Java code.
person.getName().equals( "James" );
XPath..
//person[name='James']
Or another thing to track could be RuleML which seems to be an XML markup
language for specifying rule bases. I haven't looked into it yet though.
http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/ruleml/
It looks like the RuleML folks have joined forces with the JSR 94 (Java Rule
Engine API)
http://jcp.org/jsr/detail/94.jsp
Hey bob, maybe you should get involved?
James
----- Original Message -----
From: "bob mcwhirter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 10:01 PM
Subject: [droolers] Speaking English...
>
> Had some fun today, and we have a somewhat natural-langauge
> interface for writing rules, now.
>
> KnowledgeBase kb = new KnowledgeBase();
>
> PatternNode bobPattern = kb.makePattern( "People Named Bob",
Person.class, "Person Name is 'bob'" );
> PatternNode notBobPattern = kb.makePattern( "People Not Named Bob",
Person.class, "Person Name is not 'bob'" );
>
> // Assuming bob and james are object of Person.class
> // where getName() returns 'bob' or 'james', respectively
>
> assertTrue( bobPattern.accepts( bob ) );
> assertTrue( ! bobPattern.accepts( james ) );
>
> assertTrue( notBobPattern.accepts( james ) );
> assertTrue( ! notBobPattern.accepts( bob ) );
>
> Anyhow, we had to get away from just arbitrary boolean-returning Java
predicate
> code, if we wanted to do an intelligent Rete. So, I figured might as well
> make this easy for non-programmers, and give it a nifty english-esque
interface.
> (hence then name 'drools', I guess...)
>
> -bob
>
>
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