Chapter 20. Jess, XML, and the enterprise

In this chapter you’ll...

  • Learn about rule engines in enterprise applications
  • Look at XML representations for rules
  • Transform Jess rules into XML and back

With this chapter, we begin part 7 of this book. This last part is different from the others in that it’s not structured around the development of a single application. Instead, we’ll look at many of the pieces that might be used to build applications based on the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platform. The J2EE is simply too big and too complex, and offers too many possibilities, to be covered by one big example.

Therefore, this part will be a kind of grab-bag of individual topics. It includes small programs and program fragments you can use ...

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