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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=325300310-23022007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Hi,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=325300310-23022007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>3.0.5 documentation states:- </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=325300310-23022007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=325300310-23022007>You can access fields
either by using the bean-name convention (so "getType" can be accessed as
"type"). For example, refering to our Cheese class, the following : Cheese(type
== ...) uses the getType() method on the a cheese instance. You can also access
non getter methods, like "toString()" on the Object for instance (in which case,
you do Cheese(toString == ..) - you use the full name of the method with correct
capitalisation, but not brackets).</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=325300310-23022007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>You're example <FONT face="Courier New">Map(name ==
'myName')</FONT> only checked for the existence too.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=325300310-23022007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Sorry if I misunderstood your
requirement.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=325300310-23022007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Cheers,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=325300310-23022007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Mike</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org
[mailto:rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Olenin,
Vladimir (MOH)<BR><B>Sent:</B> 22 February 2007 18:59<BR><B>To:</B> Rules
Users List<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [rules-users] talking about new
features...<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This will just check
if MyMapSubClass contains the entry (which I think would not work anyways,
since ‘entrySet’ does not comply to POJO spec).</SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=navy><SPAN style="COLOR: navy"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org
[mailto:rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org] <B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Anstis, Michael
(M.)<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> 22 February 2007
12:14<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">Rules Users List</st1:PersonName><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> RE: [rules-users] talking about
new features...</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face=Arial color=blue
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Can this
not be achieved by using a Map's entrySet
property?</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face=Arial color=blue
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">$o :
MyMapSubClass( entrySet contains 'myName' );</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
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rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org
[mailto:rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org] <B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Olenin, Vladimir
(MOH)<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> 22 February
2007 16:17<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B>
<st1:PersonName w:st="on">Rules Users List</st1:PersonName><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [rules-users] talking about
new features...</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hi,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Talking about new features to be
included in the new release, I think the most compelling might be the
ability to use Maps as facts (ie, from the point of view of a complete
DROOLS newbie). Technically POJO is a Map with some restricted functionality
(can’t count properties, check for property existence, etc). Is it really a
big change? The rule formulation will remain the same from what I understand
and the LHS like<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
Map(name == ‘myName’)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Will simply mean any map object
which has a key ‘name’ and value for the key is ‘myName’. The ‘type
matching’ feature would be kind of less useful in case Map fact is used, but
this can probably solved through introducing some default ‘type’ key which
Map object should have and in a very simplistic implementation just include
‘type’ as a constraint.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Another alternative (which might
probably be more ‘backward compatible’ with existing implementation) is to
dynamically generate POJOs from Map definition. ‘type’ or ‘class’ key will
correspond to a full qualified class name, all other keys found in the map –
POJOs properties. Or ‘type’ can stay ‘anonymous’ – might be useful in some
cases as well….<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The ‘weakly defined’ fact
objects might be quite useful in some cases, eg when rules ‘cross cut’
business domain. Kind of ‘dynamic rules’ </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Wingdings
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings">J</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Vlad<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>