Re: [rules-dev] guvnor - adding own operators in conditions for eligibility rules

It actually does equals() comparison when it can - that is drools not guvnor specific (there might be some exceptions I am not aware of to this). In rules, generally you are talking about values of things, the fact that there are pointers to things which may happen to point to the same thing in memory is an implementation detail which probably would confuse - hence it uses equals. So it depends if you are asking for identity == (ie same pointer) - which I guess would have to be a new operator (and it may be strange and possibly a bad idea). Many brighter minds than me rightfully think that it was a design mistake of java to have == only mean pointer equality (including all the designers of java itself that I have heard of) - so think carefully what you want. FYI javascript has === for identity only equality (ie either side of operator point to the same object), and == for real (value) equality. On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 2:55 AM, data data <data.deutrium(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: -- Michael D Neale home: www.michaelneale.net blog: michaelneale.blogspot.com