So I build the KnowledgeBase with a url, and I can change the polling interval from the default 60 with a property.  The final piece of this is the local cache directory that covers the situation of not being able to connect to Guvnor.  Sorry for my confusion.  

- Mike

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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:14:45 +0000
From: Mark Proctor <mproctor@codehaus.org>
Subject: Re: [rules-users] KnowledgeAgent and Guvnor
To: Rules Users List <rules-users@lists.jboss.org>
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J Michael Dean wrote:

RuleAgent could be fed a properties file that included a URL enabling 

connection to Guvnor.  I cannot find any examples of using a 

KnowledgeAgent to connect to Guvnor - can someone point me in the 

right direction?  Thank you.

If you build a KnowledgeBase using urls an then pass that KnowledgeBase 
to the agent the agent will grab the urls and start scanning. If you 
don't supply, or supply an empty knowledgebase, you use the 
applyChangeSet(...) method which allows you t specify a Resource that 
provides the changeset.xml which is where you place your urls.

The KnowledgeAgentFactory, KnowledgeBuilder and ChangeSet should all 
provide some information on this.

Mark