Hello,

in our project we've to know, which rules have already been checked, regardless 
whether or not the rule gets activated and hence put on the agenda. Is there 
any possibility to affect the order, in which the drools engine reads and 
checks the LHS of rules? I suppose the assignment of a salience value has no 
effect on the load order and is rather a mechanism for conflict resolving, when 
a rule is about to be fired.
Background for this demand explained in an nutshell:
We use salience for conflict resolving. The conflicting rule with the highest 
salience value should be fired, but the others with minor salience values 
mustn't! In our scenario it can occur, that two (or more) rules might conflict 
at runtime. Therefore we want to perceive, which rule for which fact has 
already been checked, actually if it gets never activated on the agenda.

Example:
rule "morespecific"
salience 100
when myObj(variant = Variants.SPECIFIC_1 && fee < 10)
then....
end

rule "general"
salience 30
when myObj(fee < 100)
then....
end

If I set the value for variant to Variants.SPECIFIC_1 and the fee value to 30, 
for example, the first rule will never make it to the agenda but the second one 
does and is actually getting fired because it doesn't care about the variants 
value and 30 is less 100.
We want to perceive the already performed check for "morespecific" for a 
specific object und halt the execution of "general".

Any suggestions are welcome!

Regards,

Matthias Martin
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