[alicebot-developer] ChatterBean 00.007 is now available

[mehri]

Right on!

I'm a pretty big Java and C++ person and this looks
pretty cool.  I especially liked reading:

The classes used to build that tree are located inside
the bitoflife.chatterbean.aiml package; every time
ChatterBean's AIML parser reads a tag, it uses
reflection to create an instance of a class with the
same name of the tag, feed it with attributes and,
perhaps, add children objects to it. For example,
every time the parser reads a <category> tag, it
creates an instance of the
bitoflife.chatterbean.aiml.Category class. The parser
code simply assumes that, for every tag it reads,
there will be a class with the same name inside the
bitoflife.chatterbean.aiml package; there is no
program code telling it what tags are valid or not.


I too in my C++ RebeccaAIML use a similar technique. 
Unfortunately C++ does not have reflection so I have
one extra programming step:

//Boy I wish C++ had reflection :-(
Tag &createTag(String className)
{
   if(className == "category")
      return new Category;
   else if(className == "date")
      return new Date;
   else if // ... so on

}

Also I saw from your page: there is no program code
telling it what tags are valid or not.

Same here.  I use the xsd from Program-D and a Sax
parser error handling instead.


Great work!


--- Helio Perroni Filho <xperroni at yahoo.com> wrote:

> ChatterBean version 00.007 is now available. This
> version implements the transformational elements,
> making it the first ChatterBean release to support
> the
> full set of AIML 1.0.1 tags. A lot of work is yet to
> be done before the project reaches standard
> compliance
> (for one thing, correct whitespace handling is yet
> to
> be implemented), let alone fulfill its stated
> objectives. Still, an important milestone has been
> reached.
> 
> As you probably guessed, another change in this
> release is a new version number system. From now on,
> every release will have a series number and a
> version
> number. Version numbers are assigned sequentially
> within a series, while series numbers follow this
> convention:
> 
>     * 00: Alpha series;
>     * 01: Beta series;
>     * 02: Production series.
> 
> Whether the series number will keep advancing after
> ChatterBean upgrades to production status is not yet
> decided.
> 
> http://chatterbean.bitoflife.cjb.net
> 
> PS: In recent times, some people have contacted me
> to
> send contributions such as bug reports, code
> fragments
> and even an invitation to join a web ring. I wish
> you
> to know that I appreciate your help, and although my
> lack of organization has so far prevented me to
> properly address most of it, I have not forgotten
> nor
> dismissed it.
> 
> -- 
> Ja mata ne.
> Helio Perroni Filho
> 
> 
> 
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