[rules-dev] externalize solver configuration - which technology?

[Mark Proctor]

Look at our xml reader.Its xerces based and pluggeable and should easily 
be able to adapt to anything.

Mark
Geoffrey De Smet wrote:
> For the solver I 'd like to externalize the configuration into an 
> xml(?)  file.
> something like
>
> <localsearch decisionMode="OPTIMAL">
>    <finish steps="500"/>
>    <ruleBase location="/org/foo/bar/drools.drl"/>
> </localsearch>
>
> This is a bit inspired by how ehcache is configured, clean and easy,
> without any class implementation details: the way users like it.
>
>
> I 've been thinking on doing this with XStream, but that's not 
> versatile enough to make user friendly configuration files. Although 
> Xstream works out great to serialize solutions to and from xml files.
>
> Next I was thinking about is JDom or Xom, but that's yet another 
> dependency. What would you guys recommend?
>
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