Question

It seems that Java is not set up to do what I have previously done in C++ (no big surprise there). I’ve got a set of rules that are generated from another application (a series of if-then checks). These rules change from time to time, so in C++ I would do this:

double variableForRules=1;
bool condition=false;
#include "rules.out";
if(condition) //do something

Essentially the if-then checks in rules.out would use the “variableForRules” (and several other variables) to decide whether condition should be set to true. If it gets set to true after the eval of the rules, the program does something.

Is there a similar way to do this in Java? Or is my only option to have rules.out actually be an entire class that needs to be instantiated, etc.?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Since you’re autogenerating that rules.out, you could autogenerate your Java function as well. Hopefully it’s not too painful to add that functionality.