Hi Folks, The third alpha version of Jess 6.0 is available for download in the usual place: http://herzberg.ca.sandia.gov/jess/download.html This version doesn't have a tremendous number of user-visible changes, but there are some substantial internal reorganizations that will help things move forward in the future. The most noticeable change is that bload and bsave (and more generally, serializing a Rete object) save and restore all Jess state (except for I/O routers and JessListeners) -- all facts, partial matches, activations, etc., etc., are saved. This is a very frequently requested feature, and it drove much of the reorganization in this release. Now that these changes are made, expect the next few releases to occur in 1-2 month intervals. As usual, all comments are welcome. I'm particularly interested in 1) feedback about bload/bsave and serialization-related issues, and 2) mismatches between the manual text and the current state of the software. >From the change log: Bload and bsave now work much better, using real, complete serialization. Serializing/deserializing Rete saves and restores everything except the I/O router tables. Rete loads scriptlib itself, so you don't need to do it yourself anymore. Lots of refactoring -- Rete now exports more useful functions, but delegates their implementations; for example, there are public defclass(), definstance(), and undefinstance() methods. A small bug in Tokenizer fixed (thanks Norman Ghyra.) Methods added to support Thomas Barnekow's JessX Jess extensions. --------------------------------------------------------- Ernest Friedman-Hill Distributed Systems Research Phone: (925) 294-2154 Sandia National Labs FAX: (925) 294-2234 Org. 8920, MS 9012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 969 http://herzberg.ca.sandia.gov Livermore, CA 94550 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] ---------------------------------------------------------------------
