Hi, The situation is the following: we need to process a stream of delayed events. This means that the event timestamp is provided for each one of them and that it doesn't generally correspond to the system time when we insert them in the entry-point. The events delay may vary, but they are always inserted in chronological order. My questions refer to the enclosed implementation and are: 1) Given my source code, would the timestamps correctly read and used? 2) I would like that the "time window" behaves as if it is initially placed at t = -inf and, when a new event is inserted in the entry-point, it would slide to the time of the last event timestamp. In my code I have used the stream mode and a realtime clock: is it correct? 3) When I run the given application, I expect it to print only: Found TriggerEvent [timestamp=Tue Dec 06 13:00:00 CET 2011] because it is the only event of type TriggerEvent for which there exists a window of size 1h that contains no InhibitEvent. Instead, sometimes it prints nothing and sometimes: Found TriggerEvent [timestamp=Tue Dec 06 14:10:00 CET 2011] Found TriggerEvent [timestamp=Tue Dec 06 13:00:00 CET 2011] How is this possible? How can I achieve my goal? (I'm currently using Drools 5.3.0 final.) Cheers Marco Mojana ------------------------------------------------------------------------ package com.sample; import java.sql.Date; import java.util.Calendar; import java.util.GregorianCalendar; import org.drools.KnowledgeBase; import org.drools.KnowledgeBaseConfiguration; import org.drools.KnowledgeBaseFactory; import org.drools.builder.KnowledgeBuilder; import org.drools.builder.KnowledgeBuilderError; import org.drools.builder.KnowledgeBuilderErrors; import org.drools.builder.KnowledgeBuilderFactory; import org.drools.builder.ResourceType; import org.drools.conf.EventProcessingOption; import org.drools.io.ResourceFactory; import org.drools.logger.KnowledgeRuntimeLogger; import org.drools.logger.KnowledgeRuntimeLoggerFactory; import org.drools.runtime.KnowledgeSessionConfiguration; import org.drools.runtime.StatefulKnowledgeSession; import org.drools.runtime.conf.ClockTypeOption; import org.drools.runtime.rule.WorkingMemoryEntryPoint; public class DroolsTest { public static final void main(String[] args) { try { // load up the knowledge base KnowledgeBase kbase = readKnowledgeBase(); final KnowledgeSessionConfiguration sessionConfig = KnowledgeBaseFactory.newKnowledgeSessionConfiguration(); sessionConfig.setOption(ClockTypeOption.get("realtime")); StatefulKnowledgeSession ksession = kbase.newStatefulKnowledgeSession(sessionConfig, null); WorkingMemoryEntryPoint eventStream = ksession.getWorkingMemoryEntryPoint("EventStream"); KnowledgeRuntimeLogger logger = KnowledgeRuntimeLoggerFactory.newFileLogger(ksession, "test"); // Insert events eventStream.insert(new InhibitEvent(new GregorianCalendar(2011, Calendar.DECEMBER, 6, 12, 0, 0).getTime())); eventStream.insert(new TriggerEvent(new GregorianCalendar(2011, Calendar.DECEMBER, 6, 13, 0, 0).getTime())); eventStream.insert(new InhibitEvent(new GregorianCalendar(2011, Calendar.DECEMBER, 6, 14, 0, 0).getTime())); eventStream.insert(new TriggerEvent(new GregorianCalendar(2011, Calendar.DECEMBER, 6, 14, 10, 0).getTime())); eventStream.insert(new InhibitEvent(new GregorianCalendar(2011, Calendar.DECEMBER, 6, 14, 20, 0).getTime())); ksession.fireAllRules(); ksession.dispose(); logger.close(); } catch (Throwable t) { t.printStackTrace(); } } private static KnowledgeBase readKnowledgeBase() throws Exception { KnowledgeBuilder kbuilder = KnowledgeBuilderFactory.newKnowledgeBuilder(); kbuilder.add(ResourceFactory.newClassPathResource("Rules.drl"), ResourceType.DRL); KnowledgeBuilderErrors errors = kbuilder.getErrors(); if (errors.size() > 0) { for (KnowledgeBuilderError error: errors) { System.err.println(error); } throw new IllegalArgumentException("Could not parse knowledge."); } final KnowledgeBaseConfiguration kbConfig = KnowledgeBaseFactory.newKnowledgeBaseConfiguration(); kbConfig.setOption(EventProcessingOption.STREAM); KnowledgeBase kbase = KnowledgeBaseFactory.newKnowledgeBase(kbConfig); kbase.addKnowledgePackages(kbuilder.getKnowledgePackages()); return kbase; } } ------------------------------------------------------------------------ package com.sample; import java.util.Date; public class TriggerEvent { private final Date timestamp; public TriggerEvent(final Date timestamp) { this.timestamp = timestamp; } public Date getTimestamp() { return timestamp; } @Override public String toString() { return "TriggerEvent [timestamp=" + timestamp + "]"; } } ------------------------------------------------------------------------ package com.sample; import java.util.Date; public class InhibitEvent { private final Date timestamp; public InhibitEvent(final Date timestamp) { this.timestamp = timestamp; } public Date getTimestamp() { return timestamp; } @Override public String toString() { return "InhibitEvent [timestamp=" + timestamp + "]"; } } ------------------------------------------------------------------------ package com.sample declare InhibitEvent @role(event) @timestamp(timestamp) end declare TriggerEvent @role(event) @timestamp(timestamp) end rule "EventNotInhibited" dialect "mvel" when not( InhibitEvent() over window:time(1h) from entry-point EventStream ) $e0 : TriggerEvent() over window:time(1h) from entry-point EventStream then System.err.println("Found " + $e0); end ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- View this message in context: http://drools.46999.n3.nabble.com/Sliding-window-behavior-in-stream-mode-... 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