I will try to answer the questions as best I can and hopefully someone else will chime in:<br><br>1) Drools use to be the former name of JBoss Rules.&nbsp; I am assuming they did not see the need to re-package everything once it went under the JBoss umbrella.&nbsp; This is similar to how Hibernate works.
<br><br>2) .drl files are the standard syntax and meta language for the rules files.&nbsp; It is best if you read Section 3 of the JBoss rules manual at: <br><br><a href="http://labs.jboss.com/file-access/default/members/jbossrules/freezone/docs/3.0.6/html_single/index.html#d0e1450">
http://labs.jboss.com/file-access/default/members/jbossrules/freezone/docs/3.0.6/html_single/index.html#d0e1450</a><br><br>3) Your best bet to validate the rules is to use the Eclipse plugin.&nbsp; See the following: <br><br><a href="http://labs.jboss.com/file-access/default/members/jbossrules/freezone/docs/3.0/html/ch02.html">
http://labs.jboss.com/file-access/default/members/jbossrules/freezone/docs/3.0/html/ch02.html</a><br><br>Hope that helps!<br><br>Ron<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Zully Yineth Romero Albarracin
</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:zuyiro@gmail.com">zuyiro@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;"><div>Hello,
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<div>I&#39;ve been reading about Jboss Drools and I have questions to do.</div>
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<div>1. I still don&#39;t undertand why in the download section (about jboss rules) exist Jboss Rules and Drools.&nbsp; What&#39;s the difference?&nbsp; </div>
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<div>2.&nbsp;When I downloaded the examples, I found files like .drl (drools files, they allow to write rules using a meta language), .dsl (I don&#39;t know how to use them) and .rule files.&nbsp; What&#39;s the difference?&nbsp; </div>


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<div>3.&nbsp;How can I validate the rules from xml files?&nbsp; </div>
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<div>Thank you so much your help.</div>
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