[rules-users] Re: Ruleflow-group attribute causing rule to not fire

[Roger Tanuatmadja]

> From: "Roger Tanuatmadja" <rogerst at gmail.com>
> To: rules-users at lists.jboss.org
> Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 11:55:19 -0700
> Subject: Ruleflow-group attribute causing rule to not fire
> Hi,
>
> I am new to both rules engine and Drools. I am currently evaluating Drools
> 4.0.7 for use in our new project.
> Basically I have been writing a bunch of individual rules and things have
> been fine, the rules that I expected to fire were fired, etc, etc. I then
> proceeded to investigate rule flows. I started innocently enough i.e. adding
> the ruleflow-group attribute to some of my rules. I also defined a ruleflow
> mapping (.rfm).
>
> I then reran my unit-tests (WITHOUT reading the rules in as rule flows) and
> some of my rules were no longer firing!!. I added an Agenda Listener to my
> code and
> 1. without the ruleflow-group attribute, activations were created, and
> fired.
> 2. with the ruleflow-group attribute, activations were created but not
> fired.
>
> Using the debugger yielded the same logical outcomes i.e. without the
> ruleflow-group attribute, my breakpoints were hit, but with the attribute
> specified, none of my breakpoints were hit.
>
> My question is: Is this behavior expected? And why? Especially since some
> other rules (with the attribute specified) continued to work. I've read the
> documentations as much as possible, but I am really new to this field so I
> might not even know what questions to ask either.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Roger
>
>
>
>
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