[rules-users] Query for a fact, and concurrent rule execution

Hi, Please bear with me, I am relatively new to the world of Drools and have a question. I am hoping it will be a simple issue. First let me frame my planned implementation at a high level. I am hoping to use Drools as a real time service enabled quote validation tool. Facts representing products and attributes will be loaded into a stateful knowledge session upon boot (using a piece of Java that loads these as facts from our product DB). The front-end application will allow users to build up quotes consisting of quote lines that make references to these products. Once the quote is built they will press a "Validate" button. This will call a webservice that will: 1) Insert the quote details as facts into the knowledge session 2) Run a "rule flow" to validate the quote against the product facts 3) The rules will insert validation results as facts tagged against the quote 4) QUERY for the validation results 5) Retract the facts for the quote (inc validation results) 6) Send the validation results back as a response to the webservice call My first question is how to implement step 4 --> how to physically query for the validation results pertaining to that specific quote. Any help here would be greatly appreciated. My second question relates to concurrency. As this is a quote validation tool there will be multiple users validating quotes so we will get concurrent validation requests. What is the recommended manner of dealing with concurrent rule requests within a stateful knowledge session. If 2 people attempt to validate a different quote at the same time we will have two quotes within the knowledge session together with all of the product facts. Is drools capable of running two concurrent rule flows against the knowledge session, each referencing a different quote or would we need to instantiate 2 knowledge sessions, or even deal with the matter in a serial manner placing the 2nd quote validation flow on hold until the first completes? Any help/pointers would be great. I am hoping someone out there has attempted to use Drools in a similar manner :) Many Thanks Ste -- View this message in context: http://drools.46999.n3.nabble.com/Query-for-a-fact-and-concurrent-rule-ex... Sent from the Drools: User forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com.