I'd like to add two sub projects to Drools to enable better spring and
guice support - especially now we have the RuleAgent. Any volunteers for
this? I'd like to try and standardise, as much as possible, how Drools
works and integrates with IoC containers.
Ultimiately the integration should be quite lightweight - mostly about
creating rulebases and working memory and probably the scoping and
caching of these. I guess you could also have some life cycle management
about objects themselves and auto assertion/retraction to named working
memories. We'd need to define a set of agreed annotations to define
these things, that would work across containers. I believe the JBoss MC
people have done some work in this area, I have cc'd to see if they have
any input or documentation pointers.
The core dev team don't have the time and aren't spring/guice
specialists - so anyone willing to take this up? If we can get
reasonable implementations we will add them to subversion (and the
authors commit rights), and make part of the next release - assuming
they are of good enough quality.
So any takers, maybe we could atleast start at defining what this level
of integration should look like?
Mark