I'll buy one !!!!!!!!!
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 2:53 PM Subject: Re: JESS: JESS book? > I think Young-Jin Lee wrote: > > Hi, > > I heard a few months ago, a JESS book will come out soon. > > I'd like to know if there's any update of it. > > Hi Jess Book fans, > > The reviewers are currently looking at the manuscript up to chapter > 15. Chapter 16 is completed, and I'm working on chapter 17. The > outline calls for 22 chapters, so I'm in the home stretch. > > I'm really happy with how it's coming out, but it's been slow going; > it's really behind schedule. When I agreed to the schedule, I > apparently forgot that I have a 4-year-old daughter. Anyway, there are > seven technical reviewers and they've all been very encouraging about > what's been done so far. > > The book is organized into seven parts of about three chapters each, > plus a few appendices. Five of the seven parts are done. The first > part is an overview of rule based systems in general. The second is > basically an expanded Jess manual. The remaining five parts each > develop a complete application, including knowledge acquisitiion, rule > development, and interfacing of Jess to some larger system. The five > applications are: > > 1) A simple text-based information kiosk that tells you what > income-tax forms to bring home from the post office (completed.) > > 2) A PC Hardware Repair Expert with a GUI written entirely as a Jess > Script (completed.) > > 3) A control program for the HVAC systems in a large office building. > This program reasons about Java Beans. The Beans connect to either the > real hardware via native methods or to a graphical simulator. It's a > densely multithreaded program; I've run a version with over 200 > threads (completed.) > > 4) (I'm currently working on this one) A "Web Service" using the Java > Web Services Developer's Kit. I'm not 100% sure what the actual > application is yet -- I think it will be a sales configuration advisor > (i.e., "if you buy this, you'll need this too.") Suggestions would be > welcome, actually. Right now I'm working on the infrastructure. If you > haven't played with the JWSDK, you should -- it's fun. I may actually > present the same code in several contexts -- i.e., as a Servlet, as a > Web Service, as a JSP... > > 5) An "enterprise-level application" based on J2EE. Jess will be > attached to some EJBs. The application will probably be > HR-related. Again, suggestions will be entertained! > > Manning Press (my publisher) is developing a "work in progress" web > site, and I'm currently preparing some material for this site. I will > most likely be posting one complete application (three chapters.) I > haven't decided which one, but obviously it'll be one of the first > three. Maybe the PC Repair expert. When this material is available, > I'll definitely post the URL here. > > Ideas, comments, suggestions, welcome as always. > > > --------------------------------------------------------- > 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] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
