[rules-users] Why does it seem like salience is being ignored?

I'm using drools-camel 5.4.0.Final. ksession is stateful, I'm in STREAM mode, and rules are fired with fireUntilHalt(). My test route is: from( "direct:test-message" ).to( "drools://node/ksession1?action=insertMessage" ); I'm sending my objects into the engine like so: template.sendBody( "direct:test-message", new Person( "Bob" ) ); template.sendBody( "direct:test-message", new Person( "Jim" ) ); I have two rules that I'd like to fire in a specific order (1a followed by 1b). If I define rule1a first in my drl it fires first as I would expect (with or without a salience specified). But if I define rule1b first, that fires first even though rule1a has a higher salience. Here are my two rules / test cases and the results: *Scenario 1 (rule1a first first as I want it to):* rule += "rule rule1a salience 100 \n"; rule += " when \n"; rule += " $m : Message( body.class == Person.class, $body : body ) \n"; rule += " $p : Person() from $body \n"; rule += " then \n"; rule += " System.err.println( \"rule1a: Just found person \" + $p.getName() ); \n"; rule += "end\n"; rule += "rule rule1b\n"; rule += " when \n"; rule += " $m : Message() \n"; rule += " then \n"; rule += " System.err.println( \"rule1b: Just found message \" + $m.getBody().toString() ); \n"; rule += "end\n"; *Output:* rule1a: Just found person Bob rule1b: Just found message org.apache.camel.component.bean.pojomessage.Person@b49448 rule1a: Just found person Jim rule1b: Just found message org.apache.camel.component.bean.pojomessage.Person@f4e9d3 *Scenario 2 (rule1b fires first even through rule1a has a higher salience):* rule += "rule rule1b\n"; rule += " when \n"; rule += " $m : Message() \n"; rule += " then \n"; rule += " System.err.println( \"rule1b: Just found message \" + $m.getBody().toString() ); \n"; rule += "end\n"; rule += "rule rule1a salience 100 \n"; rule += " when \n"; rule += " $m : Message( body.class == Person.class, $body : body ) \n"; rule += " $p : Person() from $body \n"; rule += " then \n"; rule += " System.err.println( \"rule1a: Just found person \" + $p.getName() ); \n"; rule += "end\n"; *Output:* rule1b: Just found message org.apache.camel.component.bean.pojomessage.Person@1133fd6 rule1a: Just found person Bob rule1b: Just found message org.apache.camel.component.bean.pojomessage.Person@ca425c rule1a: Just found person Jim Something simple I'm sure. Any pointers to get my salience working? Thanks for taking the time to help me out!! - Ladd -- View this message in context: http://drools.46999.n3.nabble.com/Why-does-it-seem-like-salience-is-being... Sent from the Drools: User forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com.