Michael,<br><br>I actually like the basic concept of validating decision tables, my issue is that we have FIT tests (in Excel) in a separate source folder in our &quot;rules project&quot;. These .xls files are falsely being identified as decision tables with a ton of problems. Validation also seems to take much longer than it does with the 
3.0.x branch (like from 30 seconds in 3.0 to to 5 minutes in 3.1 !?!?). Though the two issues may be related.<br><br>A common way of dealing with this problem in Eclipse is to allow for ant-like &quot;source path include/exclude&quot; patterns.
<br><br>i.e. exclude test/**/*.xls<br><br>For that matter it would be nice to have the same thing for standard DRL files. The validation of a large rule base can take some time and randomly results in exceptions much of the time. Once I&#39;ve tested and verified a set of rules I could (optionally) exclude them from validation.
<br><br>I&#39;ll write this all up in the JIRA this evening.<br><br>Thanks again,<br><br>Bree<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Neale</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:michael.neale@gmail.com">
michael.neale@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi Bree.<br><br>Well, thats a new thing Kris threw in - cause people were asking for it. It should only validate ones in the rules project itself - I assume that is what you mean? 
<br><br>If this is a problem for you, could you create a JIRA and state your case? it may be a case of having an optional config dialog to setup where .xls may live and where they dont.
<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Michael.<br><br><div><div><span class="e" id="q_111fe1ad85208dc9_1"><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bree VanOss</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:breevanoss@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
breevanoss@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><span class="e" id="q_111fe1ad85208dc9_3">

Hi,<br><br>I&#39;ve started looking at the <span style="font-weight: bold;">JBoss Rules 3.1-M1</span> Eclipse plugin to get an idea of how much migration work I have to look forward to. <br><br>The first issue I ran into is that it appears the Drools Builder is validating every Excel (.xls) file I have in my source path. Is this a design decision and if so, how can I &quot;hide&quot; non-decision table .xls files from the Drools builder? I&#39;ve tried excluding them from the Eclipse Source Path using a &quot;source exclusion rule&quot;, but that didn&#39;t seem to work.
<br><br>Thanks,<br><span><br>Bree<br><br><br>
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