I think Howard Goldberg wrote: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> I was able to find an older version of j2ee1.3 on the sun > website--candidate release prior to appserver--which appears to > work, once jess.jar is replaced. What is the user/password to get > to the demo from the welcome page? Demo of what from what welcome page? > My understanding of the last point is that the JCA connector is > being removed from the spec? It would seem that a usable > implementation as a version 1 would be better than no implementation > at all? Are there plans for a subsequent version of jsr94 that will > include an official JCA connector? The JSR94 standard process was very long (more than 2 years) and very complicated, with a lot of politics, and a lot of arguing. For me, the most useful product was the understanding that rule engines are still a growing, changing field that currently resists meaningful standardization. I don't believe it would be prudent for me to discuss the details of how the final private decisions about the shape of the package were made. But the facts are that 1) the final package explicitly does *not* explicitly address the J2EE environment, and therefore omits those features that are specifically J2EE oriented. This means that not only the RI excludes J2EE features; it means that the javax.rules API acknowledges that it's not designed specifically for J2EE use; and 2) comparatively little of Jess's functionality is conveniently available through the API defined by JSR94, and so using Jess through javax.rules makes sense only if you definitely intend to switch rule engines, and don't mind writing to the lowest commono denominator. --------------------------------------------------------- Ernest Friedman-Hill Science and Engineering PSEs Phone: (925) 294-2154 Sandia National Labs FAX: (925) 294-2234 PO Box 969, MS 9012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Livermore, CA 94550 http://herzberg.ca.sandia.gov -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
