Thanks for the reply Mark! However, in my test situation I'm never sending Person objects, only Message objects. The payload of the message contains the Person object. In my application there will be other types of payload objects though.
In my test, Rule1a looks for messages containing persons: > rule += "rule rule1a salience 100 \n"; > rule += " when \n"; > rule += " $m : Message( body.class == Person.class, $body : body ) \n"; > rule += " $p : Person() from $body \n"; > rule += " then \n"; > rule += " System.err.println( \"rule1a: Just found person \" + > $p.getName() ); \n"; > rule += "end\n"; I tried your suggestion and rule1b never fired because Person never exists in memory (only messages that contain persons). My goal is to have a "catchall" rule that catches all messages that haven't been "caught" by other rules. So every message in evaluates at least one rule to true. I figured rule with constraint "when Message()" with a low salience would do that. Since 1a and 1b both evaluate to true in my test, I figured adjusting the salience would adjust the firing order. Thanks for any insight you can offer!!! - Ladd -- View this message in context: http://drools.46999.n3.nabble.com/Why-does-it-seem-like-salience-is-being-ignored-tp4018669p4018682.html Sent from the Drools: User forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users