[rules-users] Re: Some questions (reading java beans from excel file)

[Stanislav Shor]

Mark Proctor <mproctor <at> codehaus.org> writes:

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> Mark Proctor wrote:
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> Ravi Krishnamurthy wrote:
>   Hello:
> Could some one give some input for the following questions
> 1) Can drools read the datas for facts from Excel
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> Use a 3rd party library like
XLSBeans:http://amateras.sourceforge.jp/cgi-bin/fswiki_en/wiki.cgi?page=XLSBeans
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> oh and didn't realise jexel, which our decision table stuff uses also
> supports this:http://jxls.sourceforge.net/reference/reader.html
>   2) is Nested rules is supported
> in Drools
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You may try OpenL Tablets Data table functionality for this 
http://openl-tablets.sourceforge.net/struct-data.shtml

Sure, if you just need to read a few objects it mught be an overkill :)