Yes, the only mandatory external dependency of drools-core/drools-api is MVEL. No way around it, because we use MVEL internally for a few things, even when the actual rules use java dialect.

   Edson

2010/6/25 Greg Barton <greg_barton@yahoo.com>
It was my understanding that even if you set the dialect to java that mvel is still used to execute some LHS expressions.  (Except for code inside an accumulate expression.)  It's the RHS that is mainly affected.

--- On Fri, 6/25/10, Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.laun@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.laun@gmail.com>
Subject: [rules-users] Minimum jar set in 5.1.0.M2 contains lib/mvel2.jar - a show stopper for us
To: "Rules Users List" <rules-users@lists.jboss.org>
Date: Friday, June 25, 2010, 3:05 AM


I've read somewhere that the minimum jar set for execution with a precompiled .pkg is just
   drools-api-5.1.0.M2.jar
   drools-core-5.1.0.M2.jar

However, trying to run an application with just a .pkg file, this jar set results in the stack
dump shown below, due to a missing "org.mvel2..." class. Adding lib/mvel2-2.0.16.jar to the
CLASSPATH fixes this, but (for reasons I don't care to elaborate here) be we can't have this
in our application.

Can this .jar be avoided?

Note: I'm not using mvel, and the .drl file begins with "package movie; dialect "java".

-W


Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/mvel2/integration/impl/MapVariableResolverFactory
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:632)
    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:277)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:73)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:212)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:319)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:264)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:332)
    at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredFields0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredFields(Class.java:2308)
    at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredField(Class.java:1897)
    at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.getDeclaredSUID(ObjectStreamClass.java:1627)
    at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.access$700(ObjectStreamClass.java:69)
    at java.io.ObjectStreamClass$2.run(ObjectStreamClass.java:442)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.<init>(ObjectStreamClass.java:430)
    at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.lookup(ObjectStreamClass.java:327)
    at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.initNonProxy(ObjectStreamClass.java:564)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readNonProxyDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1600)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readClassDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1513)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1749)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1346)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:368)
    at java.util.HashMap.readObject(HashMap.java:1047)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616)
    at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.invokeReadObject(ObjectStreamClass.java:991)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1865)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1770)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1346)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:368)
    at org.drools.rule.DialectRuntimeRegistry.readExternal(DialectRuntimeRegistry.java:41)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readExternalData(ObjectInputStream.java:1809)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1768)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1346)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:368)
    at org.drools.rule.Package.readExternal(Package.java:198)
    at org.drools.definitions.impl.KnowledgePackageImp.readExternal(KnowledgePackageImp.java:99)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readExternalData(ObjectInputStream.java:1809)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1768)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1346)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:368)
    at java.util.ArrayList.readObject(ArrayList.java:696)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616)
    at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.invokeReadObject(ObjectStreamClass.java:991)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1865)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1770)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1346)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:368)
    at movie.Main.init(Main.java:40)
    at movie.Main.main(Main.java:89)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.mvel2.integration.impl.MapVariableResolverFactory
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:319)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:264)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:332)
    ... 60 more



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