[esb-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Work started: (JBESB-644) Add support for both stateless and stateful RuleServices

Add support for both stateless and stateful RuleServices -------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBESB-644 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBESB-644 Project: JBoss ESB Issue Type: Feature Request Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: Content Based Routing Reporter: Jeff DeLong Assigned To: Daniel Bevenius Fix For: 4.4 The current JBossRuleRouter (which currently implements the RuleService) uses StatefulSessions in a Stateless way. Which is fine in most cases). JBossRulesRouter creates a new workingMemory (StatefulSession), asserts facts, and should (although it does not currently, disponse of the workingMemory - See also JBESB-642. ). JBoss Rules support StatelessSessions. The need to dispose of workingMemory is eliminated if StatelessSessions are used. StatelessSession have some limitations compared to Stateful, but are designed for instance, for rule applications deployed as web services, where basically a single method needs to transfer all the data, create the workingMemory, assert the data (as a single object or list of objects) and fire the rules. CBR can be thought of as a stateless service. A single Message object is asserted into working memory, and the rules are fired. Many rule application will be like this. However, some rule applications are truly stateful. For example, the rules accumulated facts with specific attribute values over time and then fired when a certain number was reached. These types of services would require that the workingMemory not be re-created with the receipt of each message, and disposed of after the rules have fired, but have a long-lived working memory that gets added to over time. The current JBossRulesRouter cannot support truly stateful services because it creates a new workingMemory with each message. Truly stateful interactions would require a way to identify the stateful session / working memory that a message is for, and also when to finally dispose of it.