RE: [rules-users] Using the drools as the backend engine for a service

IMHO, you might achieve better scalability and resilience if you can make the working memory stateless. I assume your "service" to be a web-service over stateless-HTTP and not a service exposed over a stateful protocol. Cheers, Mike _____ From: rules-users-bounces(a)lists.jboss.org [mailto:rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org] On Behalf Of Jai Vasanth Sent: 01 February 2008 22:05 To: Rules Users List Subject: Re: [rules-users] Using the drools as the backend engine for a service I must have not been clear, yes I was planning on instantiating the rulebase when the service starts and instantiating a new session for every request. ONCE: RuleBase ruleBase = RuleBaseFactory.newRuleBase(); ruleBase.addPackage( pkg ); PER REQUEST: Stateful session = ruleBase.newStatefulSession(); (Is this what you were referring to as working memory ? ) I hope that looks ok. Thanks Jai On Feb 1, 2008 1:37 PM, Michael Rhoden <mrhoden(a)franklinamerican.com&gt; wrote: You would likely NOT want to create a rulebase per session. Most people create working memory per session. Rulebases should only be loaded once per server (context) in my opinion, and you reload it as rules changes. Loading a rulebase loads rules from a file, and orders your rete tree. For our installation that takes several minutes. Rulebase = once Working memory = per user/transaction -Michael _____ From: rules-users-bounces(a)lists.jboss.org [mailto:rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org] On Behalf Of Jai Vasanth Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 3:23 PM To: Rules Users List Subject: [rules-users] Using the drools as the backend engine for a service Hi, I am planning on using Drools as the rules engine for a service that I am building. I am considering instantiating a stateful session for every request to the service. The RuleBase would be created when the service starts. Is this the correct way to go about incorporating Drools in a service ? Is session creation an expensive process and if so are there other efficient ways of doing so ? Thanks Jai _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users