-------- Original Message -------- You can declare the transaction beans as follows: <bean id="droolsTransactionManager" class="org.drools.spring.core.DroolsTransactionManager"> <property name="workingMemory" ref="workingMemory"/> </bean> <bean id="txProxyTemplate" abstract="true" class="org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionProxyFactoryBean"> <property name="proxyTargetClass"> <value>true</value> </property> <property name="transactionManager" ref="droolsTransactionManager"/> <property name="transactionAttributes"> <props> <prop key="newStatefullSession*">PROPAGATION_REQUIRED</prop> </props> </property> </bean> The last one is only a proxy for the transaction, to declare the pointcuts. I think the classes for aspects in Ales implementation can be implemented this way for spring, if not it will be needed to look at : http://static.springframework.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/reference/aop.html but I need time for that. The DroolsTransactionManager is for standalone use. It was added rule base configuration support for the bean factory of Geoffrey as well to set the type. Here are information about getting Resources like URL, input stream, file... http://static.springframework.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/reference/resources.html