Re: [rules-users] Sequential mode help!

Ross H wrote: > You might need to think about how the rules engine does it job. The first > part is setting up the network to match your conditions, the second is > then > executing the consequences of those matched facts. > > What your seeing here is the first part finding nulls. So you need to make > sure that all your facts are fully populated if they are being checked in > the conditions, or you need to add conditions that check for null. I think > salience does not come into play until after the facts have been matched. > > It seems I have misunderstood the documentation- the sequential mode (https://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/drools/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/t...) 3.3.7.1: "Order the Rules by salience and position in the ruleset (by setting a sequence attribute on the rule terminal node)."