I think Duncomb Robert Contr AFRL/IFSA wrote: > Any plans to develop a graphical IDE with API that would abstract a user > from having to learn the clips format?
We might provide, at some point, a toolkit for developing application-specific rule editors -- the kind of thing you'd put in front of an end-user that they could use to add to or modify the rules of a system. Although such things are easy enough to come up with yourself, a framework could be helpful. But in the general sense, we definitely won't be providing such tools intended for the developer -- such a tool would necessarily have to hide much of the power of Jess (is there a Java IDE that abstracts you from having to know Java? No, of course not.) Jess is positioned as "the programmer's rule engine" -- Jess really isn't intended for people who don't want to write code. Many people on the list know already that the forthcoming Jess 7 includes an IDE based on the Eclipse platform. This won't be a drag-and-drop rule drawing tool, but a sophisticated editor, debugger, and associated tools to make working with Jess code easier. --------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
