Chapter 19. Deploying web-based applications

In this chapter you’ll...

  • Learn about the Tomcat servlet engine
  • Develop servlets that embed Jess
  • Write JavaServer Pages that use Jess
  • Assemble the Recommendations Agent from these components

In chapter 17, you developed the rule base for a Recommendations Agent. The agent can recommend further items to a customer based on their past and present purchases, much as a good sales clerk working on commission might do. In this chapter, you’ll build a web application around the Recommendations Agent. In the first few sections, I’ll briefly describe some of the APIs and tools you’ll be using, and then you’ll begin to incrementally develop the application.

You’re going to deploy this application using the ...

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