[rules-users] Drools and Java EE

[Andrew Waterman]

Huge thanks!

best,

A

On Aug 25, 2010, at 12:55 PM, ljnelson wrote:

> Have a look at http://code.google.com/p/drools-jca/.
> 
> This is not (clearly) released yet; have a look at the source and see what you think.
> 
> To build it: check it out, then, with Maven 2.2.1, run mvn clean install from the root.
> 
> If you have all the right repositories set up in your settings.xml, everything should complete normally.  If you don't, Maven will tell you what artifacts are missing, and a quick Google search will unveil the repositories they're hosted in.
> 
> Best,
> Laird
> 
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Andrew Waterman-2 [via Drools - Java Rules Engine] <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Very useful to the JEE community Laird.  I just recently started working with the KnowledgeAgent and Drools Guvnor; so I really feel the need.  Please do let us all know when your implementation is available in the trunk and/or a standalone version. :) 
> 
> best wishes, 
> 
> Andrew 
> 
> 
> On Aug 24, 2010, at 9:50 PM, ljnelson wrote: 
> 
> > 
> > Hello; I've made a JCA resource adapter for Drools. 
> > 
> > I've had to hack quite a bit to get it so that the KnowledgeAgent- and 
> > resource-scanning-related parts don't use Threads, but, instead, use the 
> > JCA-supplied WorkManager and BootstrapContext#createTimer() for asynchronous 
> > operations (like resource scanning and notifying).   
> > 
> > Here are some changes it would sure be nice to see, that I needed to hack 
> > around in order to make it so that a KnowledgeAgent-produced KnowledgeBase 
> > could be shared by Java EE components in a specification compliant manner: 
> > 
> > 1. ResourceChangeNotifierImpl#ProcessChangetSet is an inner class that is 
> > marked as public static, but which has a package-protected constructor.  I 
> > have to create a new instance of this in order to create a 
> > ResourceChangeNotifierImpl subclass that doesn't use threads.  I hope this 
> > constructor could be made public instead.  Right now I'm calling 
> > setAccessible(true).  Yecch. 
> > 
> > 2. ResourceFactory#setFactoryService(): sure do wish this were public, or 
> > that there were another way to install a ResourceFactoryService.  I need to 
> > do this so that the scanner and notifier are under my control (and don't use 
> > Threads, but instead use Timers as provided by the JCA BootstrapContext 
> > class).  It appears that I do have some control here in Drools 5.1 with the 
> > (undocumented) ServiceRegistry interface (how do I get an instance of it? 
> > what does it do? is it used pervasively?), but I don't know, since it's 
> > undocumented, whether it's the preferred way to do this sort of thing or 
> > not. 
> > 
> > 3. All this indirection is really quite clunky, especially given the 
> > META-INF/services facility.  Was there a good reason this was not used?  I'm 
> > sure there was something, because having to consult a factory for a service 
> > to get a provider to produce an instance of something is a bit much. 
> > 
> > Hacking around those limitations, I was able to produce a Drools resource 
> > adapter that vends KnowledgeBase instances as its user connection factories. 
> > This means to use it in a spec-compliant manner, you do this in your 
> > stateless (or stateful) session bean: 
> > 
> > @Resource 
> > private KnowledgeBase kb; 
> > 
> > ...and you get injected a wrapper KnowledgeBase that uses the Java EE 
> > container's JCA machinery to invoke operations on the shared KnowledgeBase. 
> > 
> > Is this something that would be interesting to other people?  If so I am 
> > happy to open source it. 
> > 
> > Thanks for a great toolkit. 
> > 
> > Best,
> > Laird 
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