Lisp: Rules Engine?

Ricardo Strausz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.webobjects.eof
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks, I just take a look to the web page and it seems that it may fir 
the requirements.
Yours
DINO

On martes, ener 21, 2003, at 15:54 America/Mexico_City, Chris Hanson 
wrote:

> Ricardo:
>
> I found the message from Omni's WebObjects-Dev list I mentioned on 
> Apple's WebObjects-Dev list last night.  Looks like Alexander Lamb has 
> been able to integrate the Jess rule engine into a WebObjects 
> application.
>
> The link he's replying to has a list of rule engines, which you might 
> also find useful if a rule engine (instead of a full Lisp/Prolog 
> implementation) will serve your application's needs.
>
> Good luck!
>
>   -- Chris
>
> --- begin forwarded text
>
>
> Subject: Re: Rules Engine?
> From: Alexander Lamb <[email protected]>
> To: Medips <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
> Sender: [email protected]
> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 17:01:45 +0100
>
> Salut Joel!
>
> We tried Jess. It integrates perfectly well with WebObjects. 
> Obviously, the
> problem will be more "what are you trying to achieve with a rule 
> engine"
> than "how does it integrate". Indeed, Jess being pure Java and having 
> all
> its interface exposed in Java, integration is not a problem.
> For our tests, we decided to use on Java objects as assertions in Jess 
> and
> not Jess asserts. The rules where in Jess and operating on the Java 
> objects
> that had been asserted.
> The problem you might run into is: since Jess (like other rule engines)
> don't handle transactions, when do you run the rule engine and how do 
> you
> avoid collision between several session in an app sharing a Jess 
> database.
> Obviously you can have one Jess database per session but it seems a 
> not very
> good idea in most cases.
>
> You may want to look at the discussion list archive (you'll find a link
> somewhere at http://herzberg.ca.sandia.gov/jess/) and look at my posts 
> which
> (sometimes naively) explore those issues.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Alex
>
> On 17.1.2003 15:23, "Medips" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  Has anyone integrated in WebObjects a Rules Engine like Jess, 
>> QuickRules or
>>  others (like those mentioned in http://mindprod.com/jglossrule.html 
>> )?
>>  Experiences and advices would be greatly helpfull. Thanks!
>>
>>  Joel Guillod
>>
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>
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