Re: [rules-users] Templates Documented as Experimental from Community, not from Red Hat
2009/8/5 Mark Proctor <mproctor(a)codehaus.org
Ken Archer wrote:
The jboss.org documentation describes rule templates as " an experimental
feature. In particular, the API is subject to change". However, the Red
Hat documentation does not caveat rule templates as "experimental" in any
way. Are templates (which are available in other BRMSs) no longer
considered "experimental"? Thanks so much.
No they are experimental still. I'm waiting for the community author, or
someone else in the community to, to work on them and mature them more.
Adding other tabular data sources, such as a database and proving the
current approach is flexible enough. We haven't had any feedback on this
yet, I don't even know if people are using it, so it's hard for us to guage
the maturity of it.
First thing I missed in the pre-5.0 stage was a general interface for
feeding the template expansion with arbitrary Bean-style objects or property
maps; so this is now in there. I'm about to use this feature, to sell people
here at this company the concept that rules, and Drools in particular, is
well suited for a certain application area.
If interested users (yes, you, Ken) formulate and pronounce their
requirements beyond making the IF stable, I'd be willing to look into it.
So until the community steps up more, even if it's just
suggestions on
what's needed to get this matured, it will stay "experimental" - some
better
documentation wouldn't go amiss either :)
And if people (yes, you, Mark) would not only ominously hint at what needs
to be added to Expert sections 5.1.7 and 5.2, then I'd also consider writing
a few paragraphs.
Cheers
Wolfgang
Mark
Ken Archer
Telogical Systems
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