Chapter 18. Embedding Jess in Java applications
In this chapter you’ll...
- Learn about the jess.Rete class
- Create and manipulate facts from Java
- Work with Jess exceptions
- Learn to reroute Jess’s I/O channels
Every application you’ve written so far has been based on the command-line interface tool jess.Main. The Tax Forms Advisor and PC Repair Assistant each consisted entirely of a single Jess script, whereas the HVAC Controller also included some Java classes. Each of these three programs could be launched by starting jess.Main and telling it the filename of a script from the command line.
It might look as though jess.Main is Jess’s central class. In fact, jess.Main is just a command-line wrapper around the Jess library. With the library, ...
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