[rules-users] Inheritance-Like Design Question

Hello, I know, from searching this forum and posting before, that the concept of inheritance does not exist today in Drools. However, I have a need for it. Here is my specific situation: I have certain rules that have some generic conditions to be fired: Rule 1 If A Then X end Rule 2 If A, B Then Y end What I would like to do is, if Rule 2 is true, then I don't want Rule 1 to execute. I have many and many of those rules, so combining all the conditions in less number of rules violates our design having rules being mutually exclusive. That is why I wanted to include this behavior as a natural inheritance behavior rather than forcing the flow with logic inside the rule itself (you will make rules aware of others this way). So, since there is not built-in feature that allows you to do that, do people suggest anything that I can do without having to mix Rule 1 and Rule 2 into one rule with complex conditional statements? Any ideas? The only thing I can think of is taking this logic processing outside of drools, which is something that I am not too excited about. Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://n3.nabble.com/Inheritance-Like-Design-Question-tp430848p430848.html Sent from the Drools - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.