Integration of Jboss Drools in Synapse?

[Jens Goldhammer]

Hello mailinglist,

I have read some interesting articles about rules engines and their part 
in the process orchestration. I want to share my thoughts about Synapse 
being not only a mediation framework, but also a rules engine in general.
Synapse provides me in writing rules via cbr (switch-case), but IMO this 
is not effiently enough for bigger and complex rules. JBoss Drools 
delivers an efficient way how to define business rools and execute them. 
I have the idea to integrate Synapse with Drools as a rules service into 
business processes. The business process calls the rules-engine to get 
e.g. values of a credit limit which should not be hard coded in the 
business process itself. The rules engine has to have a wsdl-interface 
for integration into bpel processes, so Synapse would be a good point 
because of the flexible interface. Synapse acts as a service and send 
back the result of the query. Problem is now how this integration should 
be done. Do you see any approach how integration between them can be made?

Thanks,
Jens