[rules-users] function problem

2008-11-21 Thread Charlie Holland
I'm fairly new to Drools so there may be an easier way to do this. I need to check to see if any one of a list of tags on an object are in another list of tags and am trying to do that with a function. the compiler tells me it can't compile my eval function: #list any import classes here. ** *imp

Re: [rules-users] DRL package builder or rule base error

2008-11-21 Thread vanshi
I see.I would wait for Mark's response in this case... before I change anything. But surprisingly when I put all the rules in single DRL then this null pointer exception is gone. What could be the cause of that?? Is this still true? That was back in Drools 3, but I thought this was fixed

Re: [rules-users] DRL package builder or rule base error

2008-11-21 Thread Edson Tirelli
Is this still true? That was back in Drools 3, but I thought this was fixed a long time ago... Mark may confirm that. []s Edson 2008/11/21 vanshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Thanks everybody for the responses. > > Scanning through old posts here, I found out that each time a new DRL is > ad

Re: [rules-users] DRL package builder or rule base error

2008-11-21 Thread vanshi
Thanks everybody for the responses. Scanning through old posts here, I found out that each time a new DRL is added to package builder, all the rules from the previous DRL are also compiled again. So, that means, the rules in the first DRL will compile 3 times unnecessarily. So, I'm going to put a

Re: [rules-users] Pros n Cons of JANINO & ECLIPSE JDT

2008-11-21 Thread Edson Tirelli
This is purely personal opinion, but I prefer JDT for stand alone deployments and JANINO for embedded deployments. JDT is more complete in terms of features and syntax, but sometimes you will get classpath clashes in some production environments, like when running inside Tomcat. JANINO is

Re: [rules-users] DRL package builder or rule base error

2008-11-21 Thread Edson Tirelli
You will not find any major impact in runtime performance, but it obviously affects compile performance, because there are more rules to compile. The Rete algorithm is know for scaling very well to increasing number of rules, as long as the rules activated for each working memory actions rem

Re: [rules-users] NullPointerException on modifyInsert

2008-11-21 Thread Edson Tirelli
You must always use modifyRetract()+modifyInsert() as a pair of methods. So you must always do: session.modifyRetract(accountHandle); ... // change all you want in your accound account.setBalance(300); ... session.modifyInsert(accountHandle, account); []s Edson 2008/11/21 keithnielsen <

Re: [rules-users] What's more efficient too ?

2008-11-21 Thread Edson Tirelli
Same answer: most of the time, it is better to have it as a fact, but sometimes, a from may be better by limiting your search space. Again, these things are like SQL. You need to look at the whole domain model as well as the set of your rules. The major performance optimizations are made on

Re: [rules-users] What's more efficient?

2008-11-21 Thread Edson Tirelli
Most of the time, Join will be better, specially if it is an == join or if you have many rules doing the same thing, because you get node sharing between them. If it is a one rule thing, or if the domain is large, but you need only part of the information, you may be better loading the infor

Re: [rules-users] Drools 4 performs slower then Drools 3 - Help on .drlfile adaptation

2008-11-21 Thread Edson Tirelli
Maxim, There is a lot to look for when talking about performance. It is not possible to give you any advice without knowing explicitly what you are doing. It's like SQL: depending one your data model and the way you write your queries, they will perform better or worst. Just one detail:

Re: [rules-users] Rete: A Fast Algorithm for the Many Pattern/Many Object Pattern Match Problem

2008-11-21 Thread Edson Tirelli
Maxim Our good friend James comes to the rescue: http://www.kbsc.com/whitePapers.html ALTHOUGH, if you are new to Rete, I strongly recommend you start by reading the chapter 2 of the thesis by Dr Robert Doorenbos: http://www.kbsc.com/WhitePapers/1995%20-%20Robert%20Doorenbos%20-%20Prod

[rules-users] Pros n Cons of JANINO & ECLIPSE JDT

2008-11-21 Thread techy
Hello, 1.Is there any situation where one compiler can be preferred over other? 2. which compiler is ideal choice for production environment? Please clarify. Thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Pros-n-Cons-of-JANINO---ECLIPSE-JDT-tp20630943p20630943.html Sent from the

Re: [rules-users] DRL package builder or rule base error

2008-11-21 Thread Maxim Veksler
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:28 PM, vanshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have some set of rules which work on same Person object but depending on > whether a person is student/employee/Faculty, the rule will have dfferent > logic. > > So, I've made 3 .drl files, one will have all the r

RE: [rules-users] DRL package builder or rule base error

2008-11-21 Thread Joe White
Vanshi, In general it would be better to put all of the rules together in the same drl file as they all relate to the same object and are all destined for the same rule base. Though there is nothing fundamentally incorrect about your approach in most cases you want related rules to managed and depl

[rules-users] NullPointerException on modifyInsert

2008-11-21 Thread keithnielsen
I have the following test: public void testFireAllRules() { rulesManager = RulesManager.getInstance(); assertNotNull(rulesManager); StatefulSession session = rulesManager.getStatefulSession("com.dfs.dc.servicing.cms.cid.verification.test");

[rules-users] DRL package builder or rule base error

2008-11-21 Thread vanshi
Hi all, I have some set of rules which work on same Person object but depending on whether a person is student/employee/Faculty, the rule will have dfferent logic. So, I've made 3 .drl files, one will have all the rules for students, other for employee and then last .drl for faculty. All 3 .drl

Re: [rules-users] Ruleflow "OR" Split Nodes

2008-11-21 Thread ringsah
Kris, Thanks for your response and attention to the matter. I really like the Drools ruleflow feature, and I think a resolution to this issue would make it more useful. Even if it is the more simple matching OR-split - OR-join constructs, I think that would go a long way. Thanks Again, -Hans

[rules-users] What's more efficient too ?

2008-11-21 Thread vdelbart
I have a similar question with global or fact (Foo is never modified) What's more efficient beetwen : 1. rule "Foo_globals" when Foo(name != null) from fooGlobals then ... end 2. rule "Foo_facts" when Foo(name != null) then ... end

[rules-users] What's more efficient?

2008-11-21 Thread David Sinclair
I have a question regarding the performance of pattern matching. Is it more performant to use join nodes, or to use a from? For example. With joins I could write a rule like rule "Foo Join" when Foo($bar : bar != null) Bar(this == $bar) then ... end rule "Foo From

Re: [rules-users] PackageBuilderConfigurations and RuleFlows Drools 5

2008-11-21 Thread Kris Verlaenen
Keith, This issue has already been fixed on the trunk version a while ago, as a ProcessBuilder now reuses the package builder configuration. So it will be part of the M3 release. Kris - Original Message - From: "keithnielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, November 19,

Re: [rules-users] Ruleflow "OR" Split Nodes

2008-11-21 Thread Kris Verlaenen
Hans, The behaviour you are witnessing is indeed expected behaviour. The problem is that we currently do not have a matching OR-join construct, so it is indeed difficult to model behaviour like you want to. The reason is that is it a very difficult problem to create a generic OR join, i.e. a