Just wanted to pass it on was trying to track down what was causing parse error . Here is test case . I tried to bisect but couldn't get it to compile on every revision. Most likely my set up . But here is test case that is broken sometime after 5.3.0.CR1 . Please don't flame me if this is the wrong channel to send this too. public void testParseSlashStarInString() { String str = ""; str += "package org.drools \n"; str += "import org.drools.Cheese \n"; str += "dialect \"mvel\"\n"; str += "rule rule1 \n"; str += " when \n"; str += " $c : Cheese() \n"; str += " \n"; str += " then \n"; str += " Cheese hold= new Cheese(\"/*\",5);\n"; str += "end\n"; final KnowledgeBuilder kbuilder = KnowledgeBuilderFactory.newKnowledgeBuilder(); kbuilder.add(ResourceFactory.newByteArrayResource(str.getBytes()), ResourceType.DRL); StringBuffer stringBuffer = new StringBuffer(); for (KnowledgeBuilderError e : kbuilder.getErrors()) { stringBuffer.append(e.toString()); } Assert.assertEquals(stringBuffer.toString(), 0, kbuilder.getErrors().size()); ) -- Sincerely, Benjamin Bennett 314.246.0645 benbennett(a)gmail.com <mailto:benbennett@gmail.com> "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." Richard Feynman _______________________________________________ rules-dev mailing list rules-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev