<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">most (if not all) of my rules will have conditions like this:<br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Object(variable == Constants.value)<br></span>this is not working...<br>BUT if i change the Constants.value to corresponding value from the constants class it will work...<br>is there any other way other than this <span style="font-weight: bold;">Object(a:variable-> (a.equals(Constants.value))</span> to do it?<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br><br><div> </div>Joel G. Rivera-Gonzalez<br>PRT<br><br>"The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time, the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time" - Murphy's Law<div><br></div></div></body></html>