[rules-dev] Drools 5 Groovy dialect

[Michael Neale]

Groovy was important pre drools 3, when much of the rule logic was in  
the semantics of the dialect - but since drools 3(!) that hasn't  
really been the case, but it is certainly possible.


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On 11/11/2009, at 10:29 AM, Mark Proctor <mproctor at codehaus.org> wrote:

> Tom Davidson wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> We are a shop using Groovy and Drools to enable end users to write  
>> business logic (rules and utility libraries). I was wondering if  
>> there are any plans to resurrect Groovy as a dialect?  We may be  
>> interested in contributing to such an effort.  Can anyone point me  
>> in the right direction of how to implement a dialect? I looked at  
>> the Dialect interface and the Java and MVEL implementations a bit,  
>> but there seems to be a lot of code there. Any guidance on what the  
>> minimum set of functionality is needed to get things working at a  
>> basic level?
> If you follow how we hook in MVEL that should cover it. We have no  
> direct plans to resurrect Groovy, as MVEL imho provides everything  
> we need and is type safe. As we start to add more verification and  
> anlaysis to Drools type safety will be important.
>
> Mark
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tom Davidson
>>
>>
>>
>> Tom Davidson
>> Principal Engineer
>> tomd at fidex.com
>> w: 858.457.3836
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