[rules-dev] Rule Dependency Generator

Hi I have been using Drools Rules Engine in our application for past couple of weeks. One of the requirements in our project was to let a user (anyone who is writing/analysing the rules) find out what other rules a given rule depends upon. There were a few kinds of dependencies: 1) Object Attribute dependency: The attributes of an object being used in the conditional part of a rule might be getting modified in the consequence part of another rule. We wanted all such rules with each rule having its own dependency list. 2) Rule Salience based dependency. A rule having lower salience should be executed only after a higher (if any) salience rule has already been executed. 3) Dependency caused by a specific Rule flow. Rules in a ruleflow group should be executed only if (if any) Split condition gets satisfied. 4) Agenda flow dependency (i.e., one agenda following another) We could not find much support for this in the Drools API. Hence we decided to write our own dependency generator. The tool we are writing caters to first 3 dependencies. We might even handle the 4th one. Since Drools is open source, we thought of contributing our bit towards its development. If the drools team wants I can happily work with them on getting this functionality plugged in the Drools system. Thanks Siddharth -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Rule-Dependency-Generator-tp19821365p19821365.html Sent from the drools - dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.