JESS: Passing the rete object from within jess to java

[Mrinal Khanvilkar]

Hi,

i have the following rule.

(defrule someRule
   "comment"
   (Callhome (thing1 ?a)(thing2 ?b))
   (test (try
       (eq ?a ?b)
     catch
       FALSE))

   ;(test(eq ?b TRUE))
   =>
   (printout t crlf (jess-type engine) )
   (new chars.Ssomething engine)
   (try (printout t "done" crlf) catch )
       )

and my Ssomething program looks like this

package chars;

import jess.Rete;

public class Ssomething {

   public Ssomething(Rete engine){
       try {
           System.out.println(engine.eval("(printout t crlf
\"helloworld\")"));
       } catch (Exception Ex) {
           Ex.printStackTrace();
       }
   }
}

Now as seen above , i want to pass the refernce of me rete (engine) from my
jess rule to my java program, can this be done?

Actually i have three programs running.
1. this is the main web application for the user interface
2. from this main application i am calling the Jess engine and passing facts
and rules to it.
      Now in the conclusion of the rule i am running a expect script which
later calls a different java program itself.
3. Here in this java program(called from expect) i want to create another
fact and pass it to the engine. So can i pass the reference of the jess
Engine from the jess rule itself (something like "this")?

Thanks,
Mrinal