Hello.
I've been looking at the Drool's site, and (Google too !) but I didn't find anything about such tools. The DRL files syntax is quite simple for some development expert : the XML structure of the rule system is not complex at all, and the Java sections (or other semantic language) are rather simple too. But two points are critical for our customer and for us too. First, the overall form and syntax of the file should be checked as soon as possible. A part of the text is XML based and could be easily verified with a schema aware tool. But the condition and action sections, written in Java, make the rule file composite and need a multi-language editor that should at the same time offer contextual help and/or completion, and check the code correctness, similarly to what tools like Eclipse do. Is there any tool of this kind ? The second question is about rule systems debugging. A full work process can and must be defined to manage rule files, there versions, there qualification and regression tests, etc. This must be done according to the needs and tools of the enterprise. But how can we debug rules ? How can we trace the inference path and interrupt it to check drools or business objects state ? Is there a tool for this ? Thanks in advance. -- Ephemeris Lappis
