You could externalise the paths for the annotations:-

MyConfigurationSettings( $jimPath : pathToJimAnnotations )
jim : Annotation( name = $jimPath )

(where MyConfigurationSettings is a fact inserted into WM).

or

MyConfigurationSettings( $jimPath : pathToJimAnnotations ) from $globalServiceObject.getMeMySettings( )
jim : Annotation( name = $jimPath )

(where MyConfigurationSettings is available from a - perhaps - Hibernate query).

I am surprised "Person" was provided as an option (without knowing the auto-complete code in any detail). Perhaps it is a class on your classpath?

With kind regards,

Mike

On 16 September 2011 16:37, Bruno Freudensprung <bruno.freudensprung@temis.com> wrote:
Hi,

I have a remark, maybe its just out of scope... however as it is in the
perspective of enabling end users to deal with their business domain,
leaving appart the technical aspects (which is one of strong points of
Drools), here it is.

Drools is great because it enables to express things simply. For
instance, in my company, we are annotating text. So our rules look like:
when
    jim: Annotation (name = "/Person/Jim")
    boston: Annotation (name = "/City/Boston")
    ...
However, in the end, it turns out that what is inside Strings is part as
well of our business domain. Maybe it is probably stored into a database
or whatever.

So, in my dreams (and, surprisingly, so said the customer I saw
yesterday and that didn't know anything about Drools!!), when I
Ctrl-space at the beginning of the String (after "/P), the rule
authoring environment suggests "/Person", juste because it knows,
somehow, that annotations can be one of those (maybe in absolute, or in
that particular context).

Would you say that I completely lost my mind? :-) Or more prosaically
that there is a design flaw in my data model?
Personnally I have the impression to be somewhere in the middle...

Best regards,

Bruno.

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