Re: [rules-users] New Questions about drools

Hi, *1) When rules are entered through the UI are they immediately added to the rule base?* I assume by UI you mean Guvnor. In Guvnor, each rule is defined inside a package. When you create a new rule you must define the package where it belongs. Guvnor doesn't create any kbase, you can see a package (in Guvnor) like a DRL file split in different parts: the imports, the globals, each rule, etc. So Guvnor is only in charge of maintain different versions of that DRLs. *2) Does the edit UI require code to define new entities and associated metadata? * If you need to use Domain specific entities in your rules (and I'm sure you will), you have 2 different ways to define them: 1.- Declare the entities in Guvnor. This will use the "declare" keyword to define a New Data Type. 2.- Upload to guvnor's package a .jar file containing your model. *3) What would our interface look like if we called it as a service for only rule evaluation? * I didn't get this question. If you want to use your rules, you will need to create an application that creates a knowledge base from one or more resources (the packages hosted in Guvnor) and then creates a knowledge session from it. You can then expose that session as a service. Or you can use drools server which does exactly what I told you. *4) What is the rule scoping mechanism. That is, how do I say "evaluate this set of information against * *ruleset Q"? * One way to have different "rulesets" is to define different knowledge bases containing different rules. If you are using Guvnor to store your rules, you could have for example 3 packages A, B and C. Then, when you create a knowledge base, you could select only the packages with the rules that you need. The evaluation takes place when you insert facts (objects) into a knowledge session. *5) I'm concerned about the "then" clause. It looks like it is always code. If our "then" always consists of * *assignments to some set of variables or parameters, what does the person writing rules see?* mmmh... He will see the assignments? :P Best Regards, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Esteban Aliverti - Developer @ http://www.plugtree.com - Blog @ http://ilesteban.wordpress.com 2011/3/9 Carlos Santiago Moreno <ingcsmoreno(a)gmail.com&gt;