Eric,

    Thanks, I understand now.

     What happens is that if both DRL files declare the same package name, all their contents will be merged. It means that you would end up with both imports in the same namespace:

import com.company.DataClass.AlternativeKey;
import com.company.AnotherClass.AlternativeKey;

     And so the engine will raise an error saying that it does not know which one you are refering to when you write simply:

AlternativeKey

    I think the engine behavior is correct, since the idea of loading two different files with the same name space into the same package builder is to merge them, or even replace (update) that eventually have the same name.

    What do you think?

    Edson


2007/7/26, Eric Miles <eric.miles@kronos.com>:
Edson,

I have since changed my schema but here was my issue:

rule1.drl:
import com.company.DataClass.AlternativeKey;
import com.company.DataClass;

rule "Some rule"
    when
        DataClass.AlternativeKey(someParm == true)
    then
        ...
end

Different drlf file:
rule2.drl
import com.company.AnotherClass.AlternativeKey;
import com.company.AnotherClass;

rule "Another rule"
    when
        AnotherClass.AlternativeKey(diffParm == 1)
    then
        ...
end


This was the gist of what I was doing.  The outer classes' names were different, it was the INNER class of each of these classes that had the same name.  I was actually getting compile errors on the import statements.  Like I said, these rules worked fine if loaded separately, but once I tried to put them all int he same rule base, I was getting the import collision error.  Later on this evening (when I'm not at work), I'll try to put together a small test case and upload it.  In the meantime, you can look skim over this and let me know if something jumps out at you.

Thanks,
Eric


On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 10:32 -0300, Edson Tirelli wrote:
    Eric,

    Not sure if I understood your problem, but if you have multiple classes with the same name, and the only difference is that they are inner classes of different classes, I guess what you need to do is to fully qualify your class names in your rules...

rule xxx
when
    my.package.MyClass.MyInnerClass( ... )
...
end

   If this is not your problem, can you please show us an example so we understand it better?

   Edson


2007/7/25, Eric Miles <eric.miles@kronos.com>:
Due to how JAXB treats anonymous inner complex types, I ended up with a public static inner classes named AlternativeKey in several of my data classes  I have several rules written to deal with each data class individually that all work ok.  However, when I attempt to put them all in the same rule base (all belong to the same package), I get an import collision exception on the AlternativeKey inner class.  Depending on where in the builder I add the resource depends on which AlternativeKey the compiler bitches about (validity).  I'm not familiar with the source at all, so I'm unsure as to where to look for this.  However, this sounds like a bug to me?  There is an easy workaround for this as I I just don't use anonymous types and define them in my schema explicitly.  Just thought I'd identify this as a possible issue.

Thanks,
Eric

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--
  Edson Tirelli
  Software Engineer - JBoss Rules Core Developer
  Office: +55 11 3529-6000
  Mobile: +55 11 9287-5646
  JBoss, a division of Red Hat @ www.jboss.com