What's So Special?

First of all

The interface is all ajaxie and neat. Props to the John Resig and the Team at jQuery for the sturdy framework - it makes development joyful.

More importantly

The back end is driven by a state of the art rule and process engine. Being possibly the first software architecture to integrate a rule engine with a process engine, we may be breaking some seriously new ground

The code

Miss Manners, a frequent sample problem, can be summarized in our scripting language as follows:

member(X,[X|_]) --> true; 
member(X,[_|L]) --> member(X,L); 

answer(A) --> seating_list(1,[_],A); 

seating_list(N,L0,L) : last_seat(N) --> L=L0; 
seating_list(N1,L0,L) --> 
L0 = [Name1|_] 
and guest(Name1,Sex1,Hobby) 
and guest(Name2,Sex2,Hobby) 
and not Name1=Name2 
and not Sex1=Sex2 
and not member(Name2,L0) 
and eval(N1+1,N2)  
and seating_list(N2,[Name2|L0],L); 
							

Rather straight forward, as you can see - after groking some syntax the tools are very powerful. We are also developing a graphical user interface for rule and process editing for laymen users. What this will allow for, we can only wait and see.