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Hello,<br>
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I am using drools 4.0.7 with eclipse 3.3 plugin, and JVM 1.6.0_04-b12<br>
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I am a drools beginner and I first try to implement basics rules. <br>
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I have faced a very strange behaviour I don't understand. Below the use
case & rules :<br>
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Rules<br>
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<blockquote>package poc<br>
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import poc.FlashFact;<br>
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<b>rule "always"</b><br>
when<br>
$f : FlashFact()<br>
then<br>
System.out.println("*** always ... "+$f);<br>
end<br>
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<b>rule "one (eval)"</b><br>
when<br>
$f : FlashFact()<br>
eval($f.getHomepage().equals("one"))<br>
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then<br>
System.out.println("*** one (eval) ... "+$f);<br>
end<br>
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<b>rule "one (==)"</b><br>
when<br>
$f : FlashFact(homepage == "one")<br>
then<br>
System.out.println("*** one (==) ... "+$f);<br>
end<br>
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Use Cases<br>
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I insert 2 FlashFact instances (one with homepage == "one", another
with "dummy")<br>
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when I lauch the rules (without shadows proxy), the output is :<br>
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*** one (eval) ... poc.FlashFact[one]<br>
*** always ... poc.FlashFact[one]<br>
*** always ... poc.FlashFact[dummy]<br>
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<i><b>=> I don't understand why rule one(==) is not fired ?</b></i><br>
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when I lauch the rules (with shadow proxy), the output is :<br>
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*** one (==) ... poc.FlashFact[one]<br>
*** one (eval) ... poc.FlashFact[one]<br>
*** always ... poc.FlashFact[one]<br>
*** always ... poc.FlashFact[dummy]<br>
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The == and eval does not behave the same way with/without shadow proxy.<br>
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Moreover, I have run the State example provided with Drools in my
workspace and it worked fine (== without shadow proxy).<br>
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Can someone has a deep understanding of this difference of behaviour ?<br>
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Thanks for your reply.<br>
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