You may also want to look into a JAXB type binding implementation, or something simpler like XMLBeans at Apache (http://xmlbeans.apache.org/). You would then be able to simple push those populated objects (based on the Mortgage's XML schema) directly into working memory and only write rules to process plain beans.
Mauricio's suggestion is also really good. :) best wishes, Andrew On Jun 8, 2010, at 5:25 PM, Salaboy wrote: > For data manipulation you can use something like apache camel. To > transform the information and then make inferences over it. > Greetings > > - CTO @ http://www.plugtree.com > - MyJourney @ http://salaboy.wordpress.com > - Co-Founder @ http://www.jbug.com.ar > - Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino - > > On Jun 8, 2010, at 15:45, Betto Bardi <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> We recently implemented Drools in a mortgage application process. >> The primary task of the business rule engine was to determine the >> fraud risk of an application. The application is delivered in XML >> format. We noticed that we were implementing a lot of data >> manipulation actions in the drl file itself. For example, the >> calculation of total income by calculating the sum of a number of >> elements or calculating the distance between two geo-locations based >> on zip codes. The actual evaluation rules acted on this 'derived' >> information. >> >> When looking back the drl file contained a lot of code and looked >> pretty complicated compared to the actual evaluation rules. My >> question is, what is your opinion on data manipulation or >> transformation within the drl file? If the drl file is not the best >> place for this, what would you suggest for data manipulation? >> >> Thanks, >> Betto >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> rules-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users > _______________________________________________ > rules-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users
