[rules-users] Defining facts declaratively with TypeDeclaration and assert facts from java

Referring to threads http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.drools.devel/2860 Dynamic Facts: how to get jar wih Facts declared in drl http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.drools.devel/2595 TypeDeclaration plugin heirarchy I am just in the process of evaluating the possibilities of using Drools. Our use case is the following: We have a dynamic metamodel, which gets generated from database during application initialisation phase. Then a runtime model gets instantiated, which is fed from incoming messages (files, jms, etc.) Both models are highly generic, basically maps of maps (lists of lists, for model instances) Now, i would like to publish the metamodel to Guvnor as fact model, so that business rules users can use it there and define In the last 2 days i dived into the sources, read the mailing list entries above, documentation and so on, but i still don't have a clear vision on how to accomplish that. Our first approach was to use TypeDeclaration, i.e. to dynamically create DRL that defines the fact types as defined in our metamodel, but i don't have a clue on how to assert data for those types, since i don't have the resulting java classes available in Java. (There was also some confusion: in the documentation (M5) it says, bytecode is generated for declaratively defined Facts, but i could not find anything in the code, where this byte code is generated) Our next approach was to generate interfaces as Fact types and create proxies to access the data. This would also allow us to implement another use case, that demands access to messages already stored in the database with the same id as the incoming messages, and compare what fields are new and to provide merging of new and old data. I also had a quick look at the new Pipeline concept, but as far as i understand that, it builds on a statically defined FactModel. Then i dived a little bit more into the code and saw code generation for accessing Java class facts, which also might be a reasonable solution for us. However, what i was asking myself was, if there is some entry point for functionality like that, some existing API. Thank you, ron. -- Ronald Brindl Sr. Software Developer Member of Architecture Team The Goldensource Corporation