According to the classical Gang of Four (GoF) book ISBN 0201633612, a design pattern is description of communicating objects and classes that are customized to solve a general design problem in a particular context.

Such patterns do repeat themselves in Jess applications, it makes sense that Jess developers would want to catalog them and re-use the experience of other developers in writing better Jess applications. A study of rule-based expert systems literature shows that most rule-based expert systems fall into one of the following ten areas:

interpretation	prediction	diagnosis	design	planning
monitoring	debugging	repair	instruction	control

We have a winner for our first Jess Design Pattern! Alan Moore has gotten the ball rolling, so when Ernest gets us some Jess T-shirts, we'll have one for him. Thanks Alan! - JM

If you want to contribute a Jess Design Pattern, just use this XML-based NewDesignPatternTemplate .

Pattern Links

1. JessRunUntilHalt
2. ActingFacts
3. IvyOnTrees
4. FanOutZoomIn
5. FactsAsSlotValues
6. PropertySet
7. WrapperFacts