[rules-users] How to create global functions?

[Seaver, Daniel (GE Healthcare)]

You can use multiple drl files in one KnowledgeBase using
KnowledgeBuilder.add. So, you can put your common functions in one drl
file and reuse it with each of your other drl files. This is true for
drools 4.x as well.

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From: David Sinclair [mailto:dsinclair at chariotsolutions.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 7:01 AM
To: Rules Users List
Subject: Re: [rules-users] How to create global functions?


Package scoped means that the function can only be used within the same
rule package. The package may be split across multiple DRLs, but as long
as in the same package, all would be able to access the function. See
documentation for more info

https://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/drools/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/
trunk/target/docs/drools-expert/html_single/index.html#d0e4032



On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:32 PM, dhai <sdhari at hotmail.com> wrote:



	Thanks Mark.
	
	What do you mean by package scoped? In my scenario I have all
rules with
	same package declaration but in various .DRL files. Is it
possible I create
	common function in one file and use them in others? If yes,
please write
	some code to explain it.
	
	We do not want to use Java static method as we have 2 different
projects,
	one for authoring the rules and another business application
will use the
	rules. By creating faction in Java classes add dependencies for
the rules.
	We will need to deploy Java classes with the rules.
	
	
	Mark Proctor wrote:
	>
	> dhai wrote:
	>> Is it possible to create functions global and call them from
various .drl
	>> files? I have common code that I want to call from various
consequences
	>> of
	>> rules written in separate .drl files. I do not want to write
helper Java
	>> class.
	>>
	> functions are currently scoped to their package namespace. You
can
	> always use static methods on a class in external java code and
import
	> those from any .drl.
	>
	> Mark
	>
	>
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