JESS: Databases and Jess

[Matthew Hutchinson]

G'day everyone,

Thanks for all the help so far, the more I use Jess the more I am impressed - with the product and the support. Anyway, my question:

I have a whole bunch of data relating to street addresses (suburb names, street names etc.) which sits quite happily in a database. However, I want to start using these database records as facts (or rules, not sure which yet) in Jess and match some incoming information. Tu cut a long story short, is it bad programming and design to simply put my whole database into Jess? I want to use Jess for its intended purpose - it just seems like a massive overhead to have what be a massive database in Jess. Is there a way to use both - keep most of the data in the database but somehow still utilize jess? what do people do in this situation?

Cheers,
Matt




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Matthew Hutchinson
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Spatial Sciences
Curtin University of Technology
GPO Box U1987
Perth, Western Australia 6845

Visiting Scholar
Department of Geography and Planning
University of Akron
Akron, Ohio USA