I believe acquiring a StatelessKnowledgeSession is thread safe as well. Many members of the drools dev team are traveling at the moment, hence the slow response.
--- On Mon, 11/2/09, ljnelson <ljnel...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: ljnelson <ljnel...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [rules-users] Rookie question: best place to locate > KnowledgeBase in web application? > To: rules-users@lists.jboss.org > Date: Monday, November 2, 2009, 9:13 AM > > > ljnelson wrote: > > > > My question is: where is the best place to put the > various parts, and what > > sort of synchronization do I need to worry > about? I did not see any > > reference to these issues in the (massive, otherwise > excellent) Drools > > documentation. > > > > Well, OK, that generated a lot of traffic. :-) > > Talking to myself here, let's expand this out a bit and > say: OK, how would > we do this inside a stateless session bean? I am > loathe to write a resource > adapter for Drools. > > Given that, and that I'm working with stateless sessions > exclusively, I'm > also willing to live with several instances of Drools--i.e. > if I create the > engine as an instance variable (or static variable) inside > my SLSB, I'm > willing to live with the fact that the container might > (probably will) > create several instances of my SLSB, and hence several > instances of my rules > engine--they'll all be reading the same rules information > so should vend the > same results. > > My main question, for the two of you still reading, is > around > synchronization: I understand that a > StatelessKnowledgeSession is thread > safe, but what about acquiring it? Where else, if > anywhere, will I run into > threading issues? > > Thanks, > Laird > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Rookie-question%3A-best-place-to-locate-KnowledgeBase-in-web-application--tp26152111p26157126.html > Sent from the drools - user mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > rules-users mailing list > rules-users@lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users > _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users