Re: AW: [xmlblaster] Rule Based Publishing

[Heinrich Götzger <goetzger at gmx.net>]

On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 Michele.Laghi at swisscom.com wrote:

>I had a (very) quick look at jeops and from a first glance it looks pretty similar to jrules (a commercial product). Making the choice of using it instead of javascript (or even tcl) could suddently transform xmlBlaster into a rules engine or even a complete workflow engine. This would broaden the application possibilities of xmlBlaster even more (I just saw what telecom companies are spending in workflow engines).
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>So I think it might be interesting to give a closer look at jeops.
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>Saluti
>Michele

I thinks JEOPS as well as Javascript have their advantages and
disadvantages.

Anyway the open concept of xmlBlaster allows us to choose either way
without blocking the other.

In my special case in which a rule has to be changed rarely by a
unexperienced programmer I'd tend to use JEOPS since it's being compiled
once and would therefore gives me a high performance gain though I haven't
tested it yet.

Servus

Heinrich

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>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: Mark J Stang [mailto:mark at markjstang.com]
>> Gesendet am: Montag, 22. April 2002 17:43
>> An: xmlblaster at server.xmlBlaster.org
>> Betreff: Re: [xmlblaster] Rule Based Publishing
>>
>> There are several rule-based systems out there.   Another name is
>> Production Rules or
>> Workflow.   One written in java is JEOPS.   I took a look at
>> it and plan
>> to do some
>> work with in the near future.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> Heinrich Götzger wrote:
>>
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >I'm planning to have a client connected to xmlBlaster which
>> subscribes a
>> >certain number of messages. This client is able to publish some other
>> >messages. However the content of these published messages should be
>> >dependent on the content of the subscribed messages.
>> >
>> >I imagine a list of rules which get the subscribed messages
>> as an input
>> >and decide whether a certain message have to be published or not or a
>> >message has to have a certain content.
>> >
>> >This would be like a function: activity is dependent on the
>> airTemperature
>> >and waterTemperature.
>> >
>> >for example:
>> >activity(airTemperature, waterTemperature)
>> >{
>> >	if airTemperature > 30C
>> >		if waterTemperature > 25C
>> >			return "goSwimming"
>> >		else
>> >			return "orderCoolBeer"
>> >	else
>> >		return "orderHotChocolate"
>> >}
>> >
>> >But to be very flexible, I'd like to change the rules dynamically.
>> >I.e. all of a sudden I don't like CoolBeer any longer and
>> would prefer
>> >CoolWhiteWine. Normally the process would be stopped, and a
>> new one can be
>> >started now. But I need to have a programmer, a compiler and
>> so on. My
>> >imagination is that the rule can be a message itself. And
>> therefore can be
>> >published and changed like every other message too.
>> >
>> >How could I approach this requirement?
>> >Could it be just another plugin?
>> >How could the rules be interpreted?
>> >
>> >Any suggestions, ideas or comments are very welcome.
>> >
>> >
>> >Kind regards
>> >
>> >Heinrich
>> >
>> >
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