[rules-users] Inheritance-Like Design Question

[Moe Alkhafaji]

Is there a way to maybe annotate rules so my server side application  
can interpret this annotation as inheritance flag or something?

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On Mar 5, 2010, at 11:09 AM, malkhafaji <moe.alkhafaji at medcpu.com>  
wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I know, from searching this forum and posting before, that the  
> concept of
> inheritance does not exist today in Drools. However, I have a need  
> for it.
> Here is my specific situation:
>
> I have certain rules that have some generic conditions to be fired:
>
> Rule 1
> If A Then X end
>
> Rule 2
> If A, B Then Y end
>
> What I would like to do is, if Rule 2 is true, then I don't want  
> Rule 1 to
> execute. I have many and many of those rules, so combining all the
> conditions in less number of rules violates our design having rules  
> being
> mutually exclusive. That is why I wanted to include this behavior as a
> natural inheritance behavior rather than forcing the flow with logic  
> inside
> the rule itself (you will make rules aware of others this way).
>
> So, since there is not built-in feature that allows you to do that, do
> people suggest anything that I can do without having to mix Rule 1  
> and Rule
> 2 into one rule with complex conditional statements? Any ideas?
>
> The only thing I can think of is taking this logic processing  
> outside of
> drools, which is something that I am not too excited about.
>
> Thanks.
>
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