[rules-users] Drools 5 for process simulation

Mark Proctor mproctor at codehaus.org
Wed Aug 4 11:32:46 EDT 2010


  On 04/08/2010 16:20, Labin, Jonathan W. wrote:
> Drools users,
>
> I am currently researching Drools 5 as a potential toolkit to enable my next
> project.  I have read through the Documentation for Drools Expert, Flow and
> skimmed through Fusion and I believe that Drools looks it provides many
> features we need.  However, I am concerned about one aspect of the way that
> the system seems to operate and was wondering if anyone could point me to a
> section of documentation (chapter of the manual / wiki / external how-to
> blog post... whatever) that will clear things up for me.
>
> I would like to use Drools Flow to define behaviors of agents as Flow
> Processes to create an agent-based simulation.  This application requires
> that the processes are kept synchronized with each other by a simulated
> (faster than real time) clock.
>
> Is there a Drools mechanism that enables this?  Would I need to create a set
> of WorkItemHandler classes that perform the synchronization manually?  Is
> what I want to do not really practical within the Drools Flow framework?
I have something prototyped and it works, but I need to refactor the api 
and make it much simpler. so if you use it, expect it to change a lot 
and get a lot simpler and better :)
http://blog.athico.com/2009/07/drools-simulation-and-test-framework.html

Mark
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jonathan Labin
>
>
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