Hi,

I'm entirely new to the Drools. I downloaded the drools source today at http://download.jboss.org/drools/release/5.1.1.34858.FINAL/drools-5.1.1-src.zip.

I unpacked it and when I tried to build it myself with maven, I got the following error:

e:\Java\drools>mvn install
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] FATAL ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project's POM).


Project ID: unknown

Reason: Could not find the model file 'E:\Java\drools\osgi-bundles'. for project unknown


[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Trace
org.apache.maven.reactor.MavenExecutionException: Could not find the model file 'E:\Java\drools\osgi-bundles'. for proje
ct unknown
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProjects(DefaultMaven.java:404)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:272)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:138)
        at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:362)
        at org.apache.maven.cli.compat.CompatibleMain.main(CompatibleMain.java:60)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)
        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.project.ProjectBuildingException: Could not find the model file 'E:\Java\drools\osgi-bundles
'. for project unknown
        at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.readModel(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1575)
        at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildFromSourceFileInternal(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.ja
va:506)
        at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.build(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:200)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProject(DefaultMaven.java:604)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.collectProjects(DefaultMaven.java:487)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.collectProjects(DefaultMaven.java:560)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProjects(DefaultMaven.java:391)
        ... 12 more
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: E:\Java\drools\osgi-bundles (系统找不到指定的文件。)
        at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
        at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:106)
        at hidden.org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.XmlReader.<init>(XmlReader.java:124)
        at hidden.org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.XmlStreamReader.<init>(XmlStreamReader.java:67)
        at hidden.org.codehaus.plexus.util.ReaderFactory.newXmlReader(ReaderFactory.java:118)
        at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.readModel(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1570)
        ... 18 more
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 1 second
[INFO] Finished at: Mon Oct 18 17:23:07 CST 2010
[INFO] Final Memory: 6M/12M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------


It appears to me that the child module osgi-bundles doesn't exist under the top level directory. 
Can someone please advise me how I can successfully build from the source?

Best Regards,
Kevin Zhao