[rules-users] Access metadata of declared drools expert types in Java

Hi, First I have to say. Drools is a very nice tool with great documentation. Thats the first time I have to use the ML because I write a little framework which makes some obscure use of Drools expert ;). But now my problem: I have a type which I declared like: declare MyMarker @Marker feature : String @Feature end When I put an instance of that type into the KB I want to grab those entries with a given @Marker / annotation. So I tried doing that with reflection on the MyMarker class which did not work. Also when I try to get a FactType instance I do not find a way to access those metadata information. For the class annotation @Marker I see that the FactType instance contains a private field annotation which includes the correct type. But I see no way to access this information. The feature field itself can be accessed but no annotation information is available: {feature=FieldDefinition{name='feature', type='java.lang.String', key=false, inherited=false, index=1, initExpr='null', annotations=null, accessor=[ClassFieldExtractor class=package.MyMarker field=feature]} A second minor problem is the way I access the fact type. Is there a better way to do this? for (Object object : result) { Class c = object.getClass(); Package p = c.getPackage(); String packagename = p.getName(); String classname = c.getSimpleName(); FactType ft = knowledgeBase.getFactType(packagename, classname); if (ft!=null) { //stuff }}} Best Regards, Tobias Neef