Removing history from JBRMS
by Richard Ambridge
Hi,
In drools-jbrms all history information is kept, which is great for
when we are in production to track changes.
However, during development we perform a lot of changes and tests with
the repository.
Is there anyway to remove the history information from the repository?
Cheers
Ric
17 years, 10 months
Changing the default character for delimiter in decision tables
by Vikrant Yagnick
Hi All,
I wanted to throw to discussion a feature that might be good in Drools. I am basically trying to model a formula evaluator in a decision table. The idea being that a business user directly defines formulas(without having to use Guided Editors in the BRMS or Eclipse, as business users love Excel more than anything else..;)).
The thing I am trying to do is the following:
Condition Action
T:FormulaFact
formulaName int salary=t.getSalary();
t.setBenefit($1);
Formula1 salary * 100
Formula2 salary * 1000
Everything runs great as Excel simply substitutes the entered string into the function. The problem I face is when I write something like this:
Formula3 min(salary,100)
The "," here is treated as the delimited of a parameter. So the compiled DRL does not set the string correctly. It would make a rule like
Rule FormulaTable_123
When
T: FormulaFact(formulaName="Formula1")
Then
int salary=t.getSalary();
t.setBenefit(min(salary); //Since the words after the , become part of $2 which is not defined.
End
Is there any-way to declaratively change the Decision Table Parser to not use , for delimiting between parameters and use some other character.
I could always write the DT using my character, then compile the DT into DRL and replace my character with ,(I am thinking of using "Colon"), but would it be a good idea to have an Excel or a Property File that can be read by the SpreadSheetCompiler to change the delimited character used by the Parser.
Cheers,
Vikrant
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17 years, 10 months
BRMS and RMI
by Blanco Emanuele
Hi there,
I'm trying to modify the BRMS to use a RMI-exposed implementation of Apache Jackrabbit. But, when I deploy my modified WAR, I come to this:
13:16:03,298 INFO [STDOUT] Setting up the repository, registering node types et
c.
13:16:03,359 INFO [STDOUT] DEBUG 10-10 13:16:03,328 (RulesRepository.java:addNo
deIfNew:131) Adding new node of type: nt:folder named: drools:repository to
parent node named
13:16:03,400 INFO [STDOUT] DEBUG 10-10 13:16:03,389 (RulesRepository.java:addNo
deIfNew:131) Adding new node of type: nt:folder named: drools:package_area t
o parent node named drools:repository
13:16:03,436 INFO [STDOUT] DEBUG 10-10 13:16:03,435 (RulesRepository.java:addNo
deIfNew:131) Adding new node of type: nt:folder named: drools:packagesnapsho
t_area to parent node named drools:repository
13:16:03,455 INFO [STDOUT] DEBUG 10-10 13:16:03,454 (RulesRepository.java:addNo
deIfNew:131) Adding new node of type: nt:folder named: drools:tag_area to pa
rent node named drools:repository
13:16:03,475 INFO [STDOUT] DEBUG 10-10 13:16:03,474 (RulesRepository.java:addNo
deIfNew:131) Adding new node of type: nt:folder named: drools:state_area to
parent node named drools:repository
13:16:03,505 INFO [STDOUT] DEBUG 10-10 13:16:03,503 (RulesRepository.java:addNo
deIfNew:131) Adding new node of type: drools:stateNodeType named: Draft to p
arent node named drools:state_area
13:16:03,532 INFO [STDOUT] ERROR 10-10 13:16:03,528 (RulesRepository.java:addNo
deIfNew:135) Caught Exception
javax.jcr.PathNotFoundException: Draft
at org.apache.jackrabbit.rmi.server.ServerObject.getRepositoryException(
ServerObject.java:126)
at org.apache.jackrabbit.rmi.server.ServerNode.getNode(ServerNode.java:2
29)...
I'm using Drools 4.0.7 on JBoss 4.2.1. Anyone has tried this modify or have something to suggest me? Thank you.
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17 years, 10 months
fact base storage?
by Evans, Jess
I'm trying to come up to speed on the drools capabilities. I see that
drools supports loading rules from a decision table in a spreadsheet. I
have a set of conversion tables that I'd like to represent as facts
asserted when the rule base has been loaded, but before processing user
requests. I could always model lookup tables in a database, but I'd
rather not have to build the CRUD interface to manage them. I'd rather
represent them so that each row in a spreadsheet represents a fact
(based upon a predefined java bean). Of course, I could custom
implement this functionality. However, I was wondering if drools
supports some OOTB means of loading facts from Excel or other resource?
thanks,
-Jess
17 years, 10 months
newbie - dynamic rules in java and db design
by techluver
I'm very new to drools world.. so please bear with me my beginner question..
I've following requirements in
*store the rules in database and load them dynamically.
*.provide the editor to the business user where they can add/edt the rules.
I think for this requirement, either i can go with BRMS or implement it my
own.
IF I use BRMS, Then my understanding is that it will have its set of
tables(no explicit db design is required) and we can manage the rules using
web editor.
1. Will it easy for business user to manager rules on their own without
interruption of developers?
2. Can we run BRMS 4.x in tomcat 5.5 version?
If I dont use BRMS, then i have to come up with own way of managing rules.
In this case, I'm planning to store the rules in GUI friendly format (I've
not decided on the format..)in the database(and provide my own GUI to manage
the rules) . Then Application will convert those rules into drools specific
language and load dynamically.
3. Is this right approach? if not, please give your suggestion.
4. I think rules can be written in java or drools native language. In my
case, When I read the rules from db which is in GUI friendly format,Will it
be easy to convert that to java rules or drools native language?
Thanks in advance for your help.
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17 years, 10 months
BRMS and JCR over JNDI
by Blanco Emanuele
Hi there,
I'm in need to modify the Drools BRMS to use a JCR exposed over JNDI.
I successfully deployed Jackrabbit over JNDI (I can access it via an EJB and making a context.lookup()), but I can't get it to work in JBRMS. I modified the BRMSRepositoryConfiguration.create() to instantiate a context and to make a lookup on it, but my lookup returns null (with no naming exceptions), even if I'm deploying the war on the same application server where the Jackrabbit rar is deployed.
I wonder if anybody on this mailing list has similar experiences to share, and/or can suggest me some tricks. Google didn't helped a lot.
I'm using Drools 4.0.7 on JBoss 4.2.1.
Thank you.
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17 years, 10 months
Fwd: Special Journal Issue IEEE TKDE: Call for Contributions
by paschke＠mi.fu-berlin.de
Dear Colleagues,
Please consider to participate in RuleML-2008
(http://2008.ruleml.org/) which will be in about 3 weeks in Orlando,
Florida, collocated with the world largest Business Rules Forum.
We have a very interesting program with renowned speakers, a
prestigious rules Challenge, a special session + panel about Rule
standards, etc.
We are also editing a special issue of IEEE TKDE. Please consider to
contribute to this issue and forward the open call for contributions
(below) to your interested colleagues.
Thanks,
Adrian
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CALL FOR Contributions
Rule Representation, Interchange and Reasoning in Distributed,
Heterogeneous Environments
Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Guest Editors: N. Bassiliades, G. Governatori, A. Paschke, J.
Dix
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In recent years rule based technologies have enjoyed remarkable
adoption in two areas: (1) Business Rule Processing and (2)
Web-Centered Reasoning. The first trend is caused by the software
development life cycle, which needs to be accelerated at reduced cost.
The second trend is related to the Semantic Web and Service-oriented
technologies, which aim to turn the Web into a huge repository of
cross-referenced, machine-understandable data and processes. For both
trends, rules can be used to extract, derive, transform, and integrate
information in a platform-independent manner.
While early rule engines and environments were complex, expensive to
maintain, and not very user friendly, the current generation of rule
technology provides enhanced usability, scalability and performance,
and is less costly. A general advantage of using rules is that they
are usually represented in a platform independent manner, often using
XML. This fits well into today's distributed, heterogeneous Web-based
system environments.
Rules represented in standardized Web formats can be discovered,
interchanged and invoked at runtime within and across Web systems, and
can be interpreted and executed on any platform.
This special issue solicits state-of-the-art approaches, solutions and
applications in the area of Rule Representation, Reasoning and
Interchange in the context of distributed, (partially) open,
heterogeneous environments, such as the Semantic Web, Intelligent
Multi-Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented
Computing. We strongly advise that solicited contributions should
clearly identify the target class of applications they enable.
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Topics
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Original contributions, not currently under review or accepted by
another journal, are solicited in relevant areas including (but not
limited to) the
following:
- Rule Representation and Languages
* Rule languages for exchanging and processing information through the
web
* Representation and meta-annotation of rules and rule sets for
publication and interchange
* Event-driven/action rule languages and models
* Rule-based event processing languages and rule-based complex event
processing
* Modeling of executable rule specifications and tool support
* Natural-language processing of rules
* Graphical processing, modeling and rendering of rules
* Rules in web 2.0, web 3.0, semantic web technologies and web
intelligence research
- Reasoning and Rule Engines
* Execution models, rule engines, and environments
* Rule-based (multi-valued) reasoning with and representing uncertain
and fuzzy information
* Rule-based reasoning with non-monotonic negation, modalities, deontic,
temporal, priority, scoped or other rule qualifications
* Rule-based default reasoning with default logic, defeasible logic, and
answer set programming
* Compilation vs. interpretation approaches of rules
* Hybrid rule systems
- Rule Interchange and Integration
* Interchange and refactoring of rule bases in heterogeneous execution
environments
* Rule-based agility and its role in middleware
* Communication between rule based systems using interchange formats and
processing / communication middleware
* Information integration of external data and domain knowledge into rules
* Homogeneous and heterogeneous integration of rules and ontologies
* Extraction and reengineering of platform-independent, interchangeable
rules and rule models from existing platform-specific resources
* Rule interchange standards and related industry interchange formats
* Incorporation of rule technology into distributed enterprise
application architectures
* Interoperation between different rule formats and ontological domain
conceptualization
* Translation of interchangeable and domain-independent rule formats and
rule models into executable technical rule specifications
- Rule Engineering and Repositories
* Verification and validation of interchanged rule bases in
heterogeneous execution environments
* Practical solutions tackling the real-world software engineering
requirements of rule-based systems in open, distributed environments
* Collaborative authoring, modeling and engineering of rule
specifications and rule repositories
* Management and maintenance of distributed rule bases and rule
repositories during their lifecycle
- Web Rule Applications
* Applications and integration of rules in web standards
* Applications of rules in the semantic web and pragmatic web
* Applications based on (semantic) web rule standardization or
standards-proposing efforts
* Applications of rules in e.g. legal reasoning, compliance rules,
security, government, security, risk management, trust and proof
reasoning, etc.
* E-contracting and automated negotiations with rule-based declarative
strategies
* Specification, execution and management of rule-based policies and
electronic contracts
* Rule-based software agents and (web) services
* Theoretical and/or empirical evaluation of rule-based system
performance and scalability
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Prospective authors should prepare manuscripts according to the Information
for Authors as published in recent issues of the journal or at
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and color charges will apply.
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submission system at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee.
Updated information of this call can be found at
http://lpis.csd.auth.gr/publications/tkde-si/.
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Schedule
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Deadline for paper submission: March 1, 2009
Completion of first review: June 19, 2009
Minor/Major revision due: August 21, 2009
Final decision notification: November 6, 2009
Publication materials due: December 4, 2009
Publication date (tentative): July 2010
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Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
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Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia
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paschke AT inf.fu-berlin.de
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