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Jess 7.0 Language Reference ? Ernest Friedman-Hill Sandia National Laboratories  Table of Contents Introduction 1 1. Getting Started 3 1.1. Requirements 3 1.2. Getting ready 4 2. The JessDE Developers Environment 7 2.1. Installing the JessDE 7 2.2. Using the JessDE 8 3. Jess Language Basics 11 3.1. Symbols 11 3.2. Numbers 11 3.3. Strings 11 3.4. Lists 12 3.5. Comments 12 3.6. Calling functions 12 3.7. Variables 13 3.8. Control flow 14 4. Defining Functions in Jess 17 4.1. Deffunctions 17 4.2. Defadvice 18 5. Working Memory 19 5.1. Templates 19 5.2. Unordered facts 20 5.3. Shadow facts 22 5.4. Ordered facts 26 5.5. The deffacts construct 27 5.6. How Facts are Implemented 28 6. Making Your Own Rules 29 6.1. Introducing defrules 29 6.2. Simple patterns 31 6.3. Patterns in Depth 32 6.4. Matching in Multislots 34 6.5. Pattern bindings 35 6.6. More about regular expressions 36 6.7. Salience and conflict resolution 36 6.8. The and conditional element. 37 6.9. The or conditional element. 37 6.10. The not conditional element. 38 6.11. The exists conditional element. 38 6.12. The test conditional element. 39 6.13. The logical conditional element. 40 6.14. The forall conditional element. 41 6.15. The accumulate conditional element. 42 6.16. The unique conditional element. 43 6.17. Node index hash value. 43 6.18. The slot-specific declaration for deftemplates 43 6.19. The no-loop declaration for rules 43 6.20. Forward and backward chaining 44 6.21. Defmodules 45 7. Querying Working Memory 51 7.1. Linear search 51 7.2. The defquery construct 51 7.3. A simple example 52 7.4. The variable declaration 54 7.5. The max-background-rules declaration 54 7.6. The count-query-results command 54 8. Using Java from Jess 55 8.1. Java reflection 55 8.2. Transferring values between Jess and Java code 57 8.3. Implementing Java interfaces with Jess 58 8.4. Java Objects in working memory 58 8.5. Setting and Reading Java Bean Properties 59 9. Jess Application Desig