How to Use AIML Bot in Java Applications

The "AIML" Chatterbot language lets you incorporate AIM bots in your Java applications. Use these bots to market a website, and to create a fun experience for users. A user can message the bot with AIM and the bot returns answers to the user's questions. You can add links or just incorporate the bot software in your chat software.

Instructions

1. Open the Java editor you use to create and edit your Java project. Open the source code file you want to use to set up the bot.

2. Set up a variable for the Chatterbean bot application using the AIML language. The following code creates the variable from a list of questions set up in "questions.xml":

   AliceBot bot = new ChatterBean("questions.xml");

3. Connect to the AIML instance, which gives you the ability to print a message to the user. The following code connects to the bot's context handler:

   bot.setContext(new DBContext());
   string response = bot.respond("This is a test.");

4. Display the answer to the user. The following code answers the user after a message is sent to the bot:

   Statement stmt = con.createStatement();
   stmt.display(response);

References

• Chatterbean: Developer-Friendly Features