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color=#0000ff size=2>Our rule engine software made by Talarian
Corporation as part of their RTworks suite.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=244430918-02092008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>The company was bought out by TIBCO several years ago, and
the software is no longer supported. They essentially consigned it to the dust
bin. And with a massive upgrade to our system, we had to find a rule engine
alternative.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=244430918-02092008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>The old RTworks rule engine concept of an AgendaGroup was
called a "Context". You could assign a rule to as many contexts as you wanted.
You just listed their names, separated by semi-colons, following the context
keyword.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=244430918-02092008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>There are always trade-offs when switching, but Drools has
many more features we could only wish were present in the old
software.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=244430918-02092008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>-A</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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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>Mark
Proctor<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 27, 2008 2:06 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Rules
Users List<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [rules-users] More than one agenda group for a
rule?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Bagwell, Allen F wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE
cite=mid:095F63C9851E5B42ABFB0506D5EA557010E943E4AA@ES02SNLNT.srn.sandia.gov
type="cite"><PRE wrap="">That's not so welcome news. Our old rule engine software had this ability. We'll find a work-around, but is this being considered in a later update to Drools? My thought is that rule should be like method: you really should only need to write it once.
</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE>no plans to add this, especially as ruleflow is the
preferred way to orchestration rules so that's where our focus is these days.
Which is your old rule engine that supported this? I don't believe jess or clips
allow a rule to live in multiple modules - which is what AgendaGroups is based
on. <BR><BR>Mark<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE
cite=mid:095F63C9851E5B42ABFB0506D5EA557010E943E4AA@ES02SNLNT.srn.sandia.gov
type="cite"><PRE wrap="">-A
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From: <A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="mailto:rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org">rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org</A> [<A class=moz-txt-link-freetext href="mailto:rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org">mailto:rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org</A>] On Behalf Of Mark Proctor
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:07 PM
To: Rules Users List
Subject: Re: [rules-users] More than one agenda group for a rule?
Bagwell, Allen F wrote:
</PRE>
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE wrap="">I was wondering (hoping) that there is a way to put a rule into more
than one agenda group?
I've tried writing:
rule "example"
agenda-group "process x stuff"
agenda-group "process y stuff"
when
(blah, blah, blah)
then
(blah, blah, blah)
end
But while the compiler has no problems with this it really only
includes the rule in the last agenda-group listed.
</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE><PRE wrap=""><!---->nope, not possible.
</PRE>
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE wrap="">Thanks,
Allen
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