Folks, I read about Charlemagne (Jess 7.0) in this article (http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/17651) and was immediately pleased by the upcoming feature of Jess being able to reason over external resources (if I got this right).
I could use this right now, but since Jess 7 isn't yet available, I have to live with what's here right now. ;-) I want to implement a blackboard mechanism where a various number of components in our application can store and retrieve all sorts of information. Other components (or services) then can pick the information that they need and further process it. The embedded jess engine reasons over this data and thus controls which service (or component) is triggered or activated to process the data it finds on the blackboard. I know this description is pretty unprecise, but since we are in a very early stae of development, not everything is clear yet. Does anybody has an idea on how to implement this? Using JavaBeans to store data in the blackboard and to simultaneously interface it with Jess (via declass and definstance) seem to be right now the best solution I can see, but I still doesn't like it - my impression is still that this has a "bad smell" and can be improved. As usual, thanks in advance and any help is greatly appreciated. Cheers, Michel -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
