[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Your points are well taken; Java most certainly does have the faults
> you enumerate for it. Java is a verbose language, and programming in
> it can sometimes be clumsy for that reason. But it's certainly far
> more dynamic than C, the language in which CLIPS is written, and
> that's what I was comparing Java to, not COOL.
>
If a dynamic object language is what you want, Protege-2000, a
frame-based knowledge-base developement system written in Java, is an
intriguing possibility as Jess's object language. As I mentioned in a
separate thread, a visiting colleague of mine had experimented with the
generation of Jess templates and facts from Protege classes and
instances directly. At runtime, you can create and modify Protege
classes to your heart's content (they are implemented as Java
instances), or use the Protege's metaclass facility change the structure
of your classes. His experimental Protege/Jess integration listens for
these changes and make corresponding changes to Jess templates and
facts.
You also get to save your classes and instances to a ODBC database or
RDF format for free.
Samson
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Stanford University fax: 1-650-725-7944
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