I am a fairly new Drools user and am trying to understand how working memory is segmented when using agenda groups.  I have an agenda-group that has focus set immediately from the session as follows with a few objects being inserted:<div>
<br></div><div>ksession.insert(objectA);</div><div>ksession.insert(objectB);</div><div>ksession.getAgenda().getAgendaGroup(&quot;Foo&quot;).setFocus();</div><div><br></div><div>I have 2 rules simplified down to illustrate my confusion.  The first rule simply sets some default values evaluated in the second rule if objectA exists.  In the example that works I set the defaults in the RHS explicitly.  However I want to use these defaults from different agenda-groups, so when I put them in a function, the second rule never fires, the activation is created for the first rule but never the second.  Can someone tell me why the use of a function seems to alter the truth of the rule?</div>
<div><br></div><div>THIS WORKS:</div><div><br></div><div>declare SomeDefault</div><div>  minValueA : Integer</div><div>  minValueB : Double</div><div>  maxValueB : Double</div><div>end</div><div><br></div><div>rule &quot;Check Object A and Set Default&quot;</div>
<div>  agenda-group &quot;Foo&quot;</div><div>  salience 100</div><div>  when</div><div>    $a : ObjectA()</div><div>  then</div><div>    default = new SomeDefault()</div><div>    default.minValueA = 100</div><div>    default.minValueB = 20.0</div>
<div>    default.maxValueB = 20000.0</div><div>    insert(default)</div><div>end</div><div><br></div><div>rule &quot;Use the defaults&quot;</div><div>  agenda-group &quot;Foo&quot;</div><div>  salience 100</div><div>  when</div>
<div>    $default : SomeDefault()</div><div>  then</div><div>    System.out.println(&quot;Default minA=&quot; + $default.minValueA)</div><div>end</div><div><br></div><div>THIS DOES NOT WORK:</div><div><br></div><div><div>
declare SomeDefault</div><div>  minValueA : Integer</div><div>  minValueB : Double</div><div>  maxValueB : Double</div><div>end</div><div><br></div><div>rule &quot;Check Object A and Set Default&quot;</div><div>  agenda-group &quot;Foo&quot;</div>
<div>  salience 100</div><div>  when</div><div>    $a : ObjectA()</div><div>  then</div><div>    insertDefault(drools.getWorkingMemory())</div><div>end</div><div><br></div><div>rule &quot;Use the defaults&quot;</div><div>
  agenda-group &quot;Foo&quot;</div><div>  salience 90</div><div>  when</div><div>    $default : SomeDefault()</div><div>  then</div><div>    System.out.println(&quot;Default minA=&quot; + $default.minValueA)</div><div>end</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>function void insertDefault(WorkingMemory workingMemory) {</div><div>  SomeDefault default = new SomeDefault();</div><div>  default.setMinValueA(100);</div><div>  default.setMinValueB(20.0);</div>
<div>  default.setMaxValueB(20000.0);</div><div>  workingMemory.insert(default);</div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>In the latter (non-working) example the first rule activates and then drools returns, it never even attempts to try to fire the second rule.  However in the working example BOTH rules fire as I would expect.  I am guessing this is a simple misunderstanding on my part.  Any assistance in understanding why this nuance doesn&#39;t seem to work would be greatly appreciated.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>MiKey</div>