Hi Earnie, What you are explaining seems pretty straight forward and would more likely than not be overkill to use a rule engine. Are there other aspects of the system you are leaving out that warrant the use of Drools?
dave 2010/6/22 Earnest Dyke <earnied...@yahoo.com> > Greetings all, > > I have a requirement to compare a set of facts against each other, > calculate a value that indicates the amount of difference (Levenshtein > distance) between a single attribute on each fact. So I load all of my facts > into working memory then what? Do I execute a rule first that creates a new > set of facts which is a Cartesian product of the original set of facts, each > new fact containing a reference to two original facts and the diff between > them? Looked at using a custom accumulate function but I don't think that's > going to do what I need since it is intended to go through a set of facts > and return a single value. > > Any and all related help is appreciated. > > Earnie! > > _______________________________________________ > 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
